Memorable Graduation Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life‘S Little Instruction Book

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”
– Helen Keller

“There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.”
– Henny Youngman

“Do not worry if you have built castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
– Henry Ford

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
– Henry Ford

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
– Henry Ford

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Henry Stanley Haskins

“You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.”
– Irene C. Kassorla

“I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.”
– J. K. Rowling

“Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.”
– James Charlton And H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.”
– James Tobin

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru

“My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.”
– Jillian Bach

“My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.”
– Jim Evans

“My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life”.”
– Jim Fox

“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
– Jk Rowling

“During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello.” I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.”
– Joann C. Jones

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.”
– John Adams

“You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”
– John Updike

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
– John Wooden

“Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.”
– Joseph Addison

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
– Judy Garland

“Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Kongzi

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
– Les Brown

“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!”
– Louisa May Alcott

“When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn’t realize it would take so long.”
– M. H. Abrams

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