Graduation Quotes

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

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

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

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.

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

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.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

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

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

Oh, the places you will go.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

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

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

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

It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.