(123 quotes found)
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
Dr. Seuss
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.”
Robert Purvis
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
“When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson