Graduation Quotes - Page 22

• I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Inspirational, Funny, Military

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• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  Parker Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Couple

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• I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

  Peter Gallagher

  Inspirational, Funny, Regret

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• When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  Hannibal Buress

  Time, People, One Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Country, Home

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.16, Knopf

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• pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

  John Green

  Justice, Car, Ceilings

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• Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Great Love, Looks

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.34, Random House

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• You can't always get what you want.

  Mick Jagger

  Encouraging, Trying, Want

  "Song: 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'". 1969.

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• Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

  Clare Oliver

  Motivational, Destiny, Self Reliance

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• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  David Eddings

  Inspirational, Funny, Degrees

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• Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Stars

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• Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

  Julie Taymor

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Christian, Educational, Passion

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• Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Alice Miller

  Heart, College, People

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• When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 17, 2013

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• Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspiring, Yogurt, Milk

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", November 12, 2009.

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• I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  May, Want, Today

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• It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all, love and faith. If you are trying to decide what you should do, those are the things you should do. And you know it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Loyalty, Honesty, Hard Work

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• Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mistake, Graduates, Graduating High School

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

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• Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

  Michael Lewis

  Inspirational, Luck, Outcomes

  "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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• And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Caring

  "Desmond Tutu: 'And God Says to All of Us, You Are No Chicken; You Are an Eagle'". Desmond Tutu's commencement address at Brandeis University, www.beliefnet.com. 2000.

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• It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Determination, Thinking

  Emory University commencement speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Ego, Energy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.64, Penguin

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• It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  World, Green Gables

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