Graduation Quotes

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.

You can't always get what you want.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

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

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.

You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous!

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

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

In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

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

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

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

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

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

We are all in the process of becoming.