Graduation Quotes - Page 7

• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Money

  "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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• The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inspirational, Funny, College

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• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  Ted Nelson

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.

  Meredith Vieira

  Inspiring, Believe, Jealous

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• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

  Sara Paretsky

  Inspirational, Funny, College

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Time, Teaching

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

  Fiona Apple

  Inspirational, Funny, Sorry

  Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, sfj.abstractdynamics.org. October 4, 2005.

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• I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

  Bob Newhart

  Inspirational, Funny, Tests

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• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Kindness, Children, Inspiration

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• As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

  Bobby Heenan

  Inspirational, Funny, Hands

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• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

  Christine Gregoire

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Helen Keller

  Witty, Educational, Book

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Player, Matter

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• There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

  Brian Kenny

  Dream, Beach, Jobs

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• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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• Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Mistake, Memorable, People

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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