Best Graduation Quotes
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
—Jim Carrey
This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more everyday, like a photograph coming into focus.
Jodie Foster
You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
— Anna Quindlen
Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it… Err in the direction of kindness.
– GEORGE SAUNDERS
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
—Dr. Seuss
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?” say ‘Why not?
Billie Jean King
Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art.
— Neil Gaiman
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn’t you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more everyday like a photograph coming into focus.
Jodie Foster to University of Pennsylvania in 2006
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.
– Pele
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.
J.K. Rowling
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling to Harvard in 2008
When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Do all the other things, the ambitious things—travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
—George Saunders
Our greatness comes when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other.
Michelle Obama
Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
Sheryl Sandberg
Graduation isn’t the end of a tough journey. It is the beginning of a beautiful one…
– Unknown
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
—Thomas Edison
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
—Nora Ephron
Life is an improvisation. You have no ideas what’s going to happen next and you are mostly making things up as you go along.
– Stephen Colbert
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.
—Arie Pencovici
We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification and Instagram, but there is no way to short circuit the path to success.
—Tory Burch
Today is a milestone. It tells you how far you’ve come. Keep learning, keep trying, keep accomplishing, and keep venturing on through your journey. Congratulations!
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X
Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.
—Kerry Washington
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
—Arnold Schwarzenegger
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
—Grandma Moses
Now that you are out of college, you get to put your knowledge and skills to the true test. You’ll have no more grades, but you will have challenges. I’m confident you will meet those challenges and be successful as you have in the past!
The future holds no promises, but rather mysteries and surprises. What you’ve learned will prepare you for both. Congratulations and all the best for the future!
Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
– William Arthur Ward
If you’re willing to stand for what you believe in . . . you won’t need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.
—Whoopi Goldberg
The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear.
—Grace Helbig
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
—Mark Twain
The purpose of human life is to improve one’s character traits, by working on oneself every day. That’s why God gives us today—and tomorrow.
—Sara Yoheved Rigle
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
—Dr. Seuss
My dear terrified graduates, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives. The stories you are about to live are the ones you will be telling your children, and grandchildren, and therapists.
—Lin-Manuel Miranda
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
—Theodore Roosevelt