Graduation Inspirational Quotes And Sayings

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Graduation Inspirational Quotes And Sayings


“When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive.”
– Neil Gaiman

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela

“When the things around you are seen as gifts, they are no longer a means to an end; they are the means and the end. And thus, a cow-herder will tend to his animals with the compassion of a father, a village woman will wait 3 hours for a delayed bus without a trace of anger, a child will spend countless hours fascinated by stars in the galaxy, and finding his place in the vast cosmos. ”
– Nipun Mehta

“We have forgotten how to value things without a price tag. Hence, when we get to our most abundant gifts — like attention, insight, compassion — we confuse their worth because they’re, well, priceless.”
– Nipun Mehta

“Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Turn your wounds into wisdom. You will be wounded many times in your life. You’ll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God‘s way of saying, “Excuse me, you’re moving in the wrong direction.” It’s just an experience, just an experience.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde

“At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.”
– Paul Freund

“I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don’t even bother asking. Don’t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.”
– Peter Dinklage

“You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.”
Proverb

“Some dreams are bad dreams. . . . Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.”
– Rachel Maddow

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
– Ralph Marston

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
– Reggie Leach

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is very common … to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It’s not real.”
– Roger Goddell

“Graduates, make sure you can write this sentence: ‘I am who I always wanted to be’.”
– Sanjay Gupta

“You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!”
– Sanjay Gupta

“Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race.”
– Sharin Alfonsi

” Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can’t even imagine as you sit here today. It’s a lot like a Scooby Doo episode. ”
– Sharin Alfonsi

“A world where men ran half our homes and women ran half our institutions would be just a much better world.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

” Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. ”
– Sheryl Sandberg

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
– Sidney J. Harris

“You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself…There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along. ”
– Stephen Colbert

“And we didn’t have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn’t show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.”
– Stephen Colbert

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