Graduation Day Quotes - Page 2

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tom Brokaw

Graduation, Thinking, Tickets

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

Robert Jones Burdette

Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life

"Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

Nora Roberts

Goal, Want, Maximizing

Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

"Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

Joss Whedon

Thinking, Perspective, Vampire

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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Norman Cousins

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Fred Allen

Graduation, Education, Laughter

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The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Maya Angelou

Graduation, Space, Offering

Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

Success, Graduation, Education

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If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Nora Roberts

Motivation, Maximizing, Steps

Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Ella Fitzgerald

Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Orrin Hatch

Graduation, Senior, Exercise

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

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Life, Graduation, Wise

"Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Graduation, Encouraging, Being Single

Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 20, 2014

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Neil Gaiman

Graduation, Mistake, Graduates

Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

Inspirational, Graduation, Mistake

Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

Graduation, Interesting, World

Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.418, Hachette UK

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