Graduation Quotes
After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.
Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.
From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.
The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.
In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.
There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.
Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.
You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."
