Graduation Quotes

#1. We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goal-oriented. We must have goals to make progress, encouraged by keeping records ... as the swimmer or the jumper or the runner does ... Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured ... Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain. #Quote by Spencer W. Kimball

#2. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva #Quote by Josh Groban

#3. The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are ... so make up your own rules. #Quote by Neil Gaiman

#4. You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts. #Quote by Auliq Ice

#5. Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.' #Quote by Cory Booker

#6. I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed. #Quote by Anderson Cooper

#7. This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! #Quote by Henny Youngman

#8. At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. #Quote by Joseph Kanon

#9. Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members. #Quote by Mathew Staver

#10. Karate is the best thing you can do for your child. #Quote by Chuck Norris

#11. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. #Quote by Steve Jobs

#12. The biggest surprise
and it came as a great revalation
was understanding that whatever happens, no matter how catastrophic or wonderful, it's just another patch. There are times when something special happens: a marriage, graduation, or the birth of a child. There's no denying it's a glorious patch. It might even be a red patch
the one that pulls the whole quilt together. But I couldn't stop repeating, It's just another patch. #Quote by Sue Bender

#13. In Gadsden County, Florida, for example, students were required to take a total of 242 standardized exams between kindergarten and their high school graduation day, according to a recent study by the conservative Foundation for Excellence in Education. #Quote by Anonymous

#14. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#15. It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor. #Quote by James D'arcy

#16. Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. #Quote by Archimedes

#17. It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree. #Quote by Akshay Kumar

#18. You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back. #Quote by Stephen Colbert

#19. God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. #Quote by Bernie Siegel

#20. You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library! #Quote by Barack Obama

#21. The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#22. I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. #Quote by Tim O'Brien

#23. Graduation breathes on us, redneck lady," he said. "Now is the time to make sure we have the strings to all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away. #Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

#24. The ethic of ecstasy is the opposite of the trial's ethic; under its protection everybody does whatever he wants: now anyone can suck his thumb as he likes, from infancy to graduation, and it is a freedom no one will be willing to give up; look around you on the Metro; seated or standing, every single person has a finger in some orifice of his face-in the ear, in the mouth, in the nose; no one feels he's being observed, and everyone dreams of writing a book to tell about his unique and inimitable self, which is picking its nose; no one listens to anyone else, everyone writes, and each of them writes the way rock is danced to: alone, for himself, focused on himself yet making the same motions as all the others. In this situation of uniform egocentricity, the sense of guilt does not play the role it once did; the tribunals still operate, but they are fascinated exclusively by the past; they see only the core of the century; they see only the generations that are old or dead. #Quote by Milan Kundera

#25. Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. #Quote by Aaron Sorkin

#26. The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that. #Quote by Ellen DeGeneres

#27. College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. #Quote by Ruby Wax

#28. Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee. #Quote by Louis C.K.

#29. After graduation I probably won't see any of these people again."
I throw him a hurt look. "Hey! What about me?"
"Not you. You're coming to visit me in New York."
"Ooh! Yes, please."
"Sarah Lawrence is so close to the city. I'll be able to go to Broadway shows whenever I want. There's an app for same-day student tickets." He gets a faraway look in his eyes.
"You're so lucky," I say.
"I'll take you. We'll go to a gay bar, too. It'll be amazing."
"Thank you!"
"But everybody else I can take or leave."
"We still have Beach Week," I remind him, and he nods.
"For the rest of our lives, we'll always have Beach Week," he says mockingly, and I throw a hair tie at him. #Quote by Jenny Han

#30. Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you #Quote by Paul Simon

#31. As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together. #Quote by Barack Obama

#32. Generalized Social Anxiety

In contrast to people with specific social anxieties, you may be afraid in a wide variety of situations. You might feel that people are judging everything you do and you might set unreasonable standards of perfection for yourself. This condition is called generalized (or discrete) social anxiety. Generalized social anxiety accounts for 80 percent of all cases of social anxiety.
Often, people with generalized social anxiety get caught in a vicious cycle. Because they are overly anxious in many situations, they act in clumsy and awkward ways, which in turn makes them feel even more discouraged and anxious. This cycle often results in depression and chronic stress.
Generalized social anxiety can affect almost every aspect of your life. This has been the case for Toni, a college senior.

In high school, I hardly had any friends. I didn't participate in any extracurricular activities and managed to get by with average grades. Because I attend a large state university, I am even more invisible. So far, I have avoided any class that has any interaction with my peers, such as discussion groups or labs.
As graduation approaches, I need to decide what type of career I want. The thought of job interviews terrifies me. I am considering grad school but would need recommendations to apply. I haven't even spoken to most of my professors, and the ones who know me probably can't say anything good about me.
As a result, I'm r #Quote by Heather Moehn

#33. Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. #Quote by Ruth Ann Minner

#34. I exclusively attended public school ... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it. #Quote by Jessica Bowman

#35. I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. #Quote by Daniel J. Evans

#36. I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. #Quote by Fred Allen

#37. We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. #Quote by H.G.Wells

#38. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. #Quote by Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#39. Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness. #Quote by Wayne Dyer

#40. Death is the Graduation of the Soul #Quote by Sylvia Browne

#41. We live by what we believe not but what we see. #Quote by Angela Ahrendts

#42. Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you. #Quote by Margaret Cho

#43. I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume! #Quote by Bill Gates

#44. In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls. #Quote by Ed O'Neill

#45. Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want. #Quote by Emily Henry

#46. When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture. #Quote by Jonathan Falwell

#47. I think I'll say goodnight here," Jack said.
"My dad's not so bad."
"Oh yeah,he was great...right up until the time I started dating his daughter."
I'd seen how my dad had become considerably colder toward Jack. There were little clues,like the other evening when out of nowhere he told Jack about how every football player he went to high school with had gotten fat after graduation.We'd been talking about what to make for dinner.
"Okay," I said. "Maybe next time." I leaned over to peck him on the cheek, but he grabbed my face in both of his hands and kissed me. His breath tasted like the mints the chaperones had passed out when the dance was over, and when he parted his lips against mine, I shivered, but not because of the cold. I pressed against him even more and hoped the dark inside the car obscured my dad's view.
But I knew better than to push it.As I was about to break away,Jack put his hands behind my waist and pulled me even closer,practically lifting me over the center console,so I was sitting in his lap.
I pulled back. "My dad's going to love that-"
He put his finger over my lips, cutting me off. "Please don't talk about your dad when I'm kissing you. Besides, unless he's enacted a law against it-"
"Which he may well do after tonight," I interrupted.
He smiled and then brought my face to his again for a few moments before finally releasing me.
"After that kiss,we'd better dream of the same thing tonight," he said with #Quote by Brodi Ashton

#48. Not long after graduation I was teaching at an alternative school and already I had serious doubts about my career choice. My students were hellions. I'd been assaulted twice. My car had been vandalized. I had to testify in court against one of my students, and afterward - and purely for spite - I delivered her textbook and homework assignments to the juvenile detention facility. Not my finest moment, but I enjoyed it. #Quote by Tucker Elliot

#49. I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while. #Quote by Ira Glass

#50. Hassan said, "I'm a Kuwaiti exchange student; my dad's an oil baron."
Colin shook his head, "Too obvious. I'm a Spaniard. A refugee. My parents were murdered by Basque separatists."
"I don't know if Basque is a thing or a person and neither will they, so no. Okay, I just got to America from Honduras. My name is Miguel. My parents made a fortune in bananas, and you are my bodyguard, because the banana workers' union wants me dead."
Colin shot back, "That's good, but you don't speak Spanish. Okay, I was abducted by Eskimos in the Yukon Terr-no, that's crap. We're cousins from France visiting the United States for the first time. It's out high school graduation trip."
"That's boring, but we're out of time. I'm the English speaker?" asked Hassan. "Yeah, fine."
"Okay, they're coming," said Hassan. "What's your name?"
"Pierre."
"Okay. I'm Salinger, pronounced SalinZHAY."
........
"He has Tourette's?" asked Katrina.
"MERDE!" (Shit) shouted Colin.
"Yes," said Hassan excitedly. "same word both language, like hemorrhoid. That one we learned yesterday because Pierre had the fire in his bottom. He has Toorettes. And the hemorrhoid. But, is good boy.
"Ne dis pas que j'ai des hemorroides! Je n'ai pas d'hemorroide," (Don't say I have hemorrhoids! I don't have hemorrhoids.) Colin shouted, at once trying to continue the game and get Hassan on to a different topic.
Hassan looked at Colin, nodded knowingly, and then told Katrina, #Quote by John Green

#51. 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. #Quote by Meredith Vieira

#52. Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. #Quote by Alexander Pope

#53. All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since. #Quote by Patina Miller

#54. Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. #Quote by Erma Bombeck

#55. Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood. #Quote by James Montgomery

#56. Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there. #Quote by Tim Minchin

#57. Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. #Quote by R. Lee Ermey

#58. 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. #Quote by Rachel Maddow

#59. At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud. #Quote by Portia De Rossi

#60. Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push-up bras. #Quote by Dolly Parton

#61. ON JUNE 25, 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke at his Harvard graduation ceremony. He had now excelled, and had graduated from the most prestigious historically Black college and the most prestigious historically White college in the United States. He felt he was showing off the capability of his race. Du Bois's "brilliant and eloquent address," as judged by the reporters, was on "Jefferson Davis as Representative of Civilization." In Du Bois's rendering, Jefferson Davis, who had died the year before, represented the rugged individualism and domineering European civilization, in contrast to the rugged "submission" and selflessness of African civilization. The European "met civilization and crushed it," Du Bois concluded. "The Negro met civilization and was crushed by it." According to Du Bois's biographer, the Harvard graduate contrasted the civilized European "Strong Man" to the civilized African "Submissive Man."5 #Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

#62. Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy. #Quote by Seth MacFarlane

#63. For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right. #Quote by Tim Cook

#64. As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky. #Quote by Will Ferrell

#65. this meant he had reached the end of the track that he had blindly followed from the first year of primary school to graduation. #Quote by Paolo Giordano

#66. Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning. #Quote by Margaret Heffernan

#67. I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech. #Quote by Taylor Spreitler

#68. You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over. #Quote by Elizabeth Edwards

#69. No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are. #Quote by Taylor Mali

#70. I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23. #Quote by David Suchet

#71. I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. #Quote by Tommy Caldwell

#72. Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game. #Quote by LaVell Edwards

#73. In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers. #Quote by Andy Hargreaves

#74. Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. #Quote by Joe Baca

#75. What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision. #Quote by Helen Keller

#76. Because, though I'd seen and felt just a fraction of all the love in the world, I knew that when people thought of love they thought of moments. Whether or not a marriage worked out, or if they stayed together after graduation, or if they did go to the big dance together, the story's end mattered less, and the highlights in between mattered more. Those are what lingered, and what people can go back to, even when they had nothing left. #Quote by Mina V. Esguerra

#77. I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer. #Quote by James Green Somerville

#78. I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. #Quote by Frederick Reines

#79. A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it. #Quote by Mark Zuckerberg

#80. 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. #Quote by Jamie Hyneman

#81. Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably. #Quote by Biz Stone

#82. The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten. #Quote by Natasha Bedingfield

#83. It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system. #Quote by Brian Sandoval

#84. The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. #Quote by Martha Reeves

#85. It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. #Quote by Norman Cousins

#86. There was prom and finals and graduation. There were summer parties. Movies. Mini golf and dates and college orientations. There as life, moving on, and I missed it. Not because I couldn't go physically, but because I couldn't go emotionally. There were whole days when I couldn't leave my bed, not because of the bruises and scars, but because getting up and facing the world for another day felt too frightening, and too pointless. #Quote by Jennifer Brown

#87. You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that! #Quote by Sanjay Gupta

#88. We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there. #Quote by Mordecai Richler

#89. The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom. #Quote by William O. Douglas

#90. I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. #Quote by Scott Hamilton

#91. I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation. #Quote by Gloria Steinem

#92. After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. #Quote by John Katzman

#93. At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. #Quote by Paul A. Freund

#94. Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals. #Quote by Ruben Hinojosa

#95. When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our child boarding the school bus for the first day of kindergarten, a close colleague changing jobs, a move to a new city - we are more likely to appreciate [be grateful for] and savor the remaining time that we do have. Although bittersweet experiences also make us sad, it is this sadness that prompts us, instead of taking it for granted, to come to appreciate the positive aspects of our vacation, colleague, or hometown; it's 'now or never.' #Quote by Sonja Lyubomirsky

#96. 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. #Quote by Fiona Apple

#97. It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. #Quote by John F. Kennedy

#98. One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia. #Quote by Robert C. Merton

#99. I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35. #Quote by Rainbow Rowell

#100. Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world. #Quote by Sandra Tsing Loh

#101. I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career. #Quote by Christie Laing

#102. I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger. #Quote by Lisa Fernandez

#103. Higher education is, after all, in the business of producing professionals (or wives of professionals), and there are a limited variety of dies from which they can be cut. As in any other factory, the jobs are specialized and standardized for efficient production: write the paper this way, type the letter that, dispense funds this way, grade the student that. … Academia brooks only token deviance from its norms, just enough to demonstrate its democratic principles or its 'innovative' atmosphere. It offers survival and acceptance (graduation, a job, prestige) to those who will quietly take their place on the assembly line or who are themselves willing to be mutilated into professionals. #Quote by Sally Miller Gearhart

#104. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. #Quote by Michael Lewis

#105. Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. #Quote by Clive James

#106. The important thing is the educational experience itself - how to survive it. #Quote by Donald Barthelme

#107. After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own. #Quote by Rachel Maddow

#108. Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. #Quote by Gordon Brown

#109. Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity. #Quote by Dally Messenger

#110. Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.
Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.
Cordelia: I stand corrected.
Oz: Just keeping things in perspective. #Quote by Mutant Enemy/ Joss Whedon

#111. People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I'm living proof that the 'lucky breaks' theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck ... The world is run by those who show up ... not those who wait to be asked. #Quote by Steve Blank

#112. The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived. #Quote by Spencer Johnson

#113. Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.
We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#114. You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan! #Quote by Eva Longoria

#115. Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University. #Quote by Harold E. Varmus

#116. No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. #Quote by Taylor Swift

#117. Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility, or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can't remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law, or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
You see? If all you remember in years to come is the 'gay wizard' joke, I've come out ahead of Baroness Mary Warnock. Achievable goals: the first step to self-improvement. #Quote by J.K. Rowling

#118. I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#119. Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has always been an editor, never a reporter. He was inclined to worry that too many reporters on the metropolitan staff were incompetent, and thought even the best reporters could be saved from self-destruction only by the skills of an editor. His natural distrust of reporters was particularly acute on the Watergate story, where the risks were very great, and he was in the uncomfortable position of having to trust Bernstein and Woodward more than he had ever trusted any reporters.

-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward #Quote by Carl Bernstein

#120. The great works of art and literature have a lot to say on how to tackle the concrete challenges of living, like how to escape the chains of public opinion, how to cope with grief or how to build loving friendships. Instead of organizing classes around academic concepts - 19th-century French literature - more could be organized around the concrete challenges students will face in the first decade after graduation. #Quote by David Brooks

#121. We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. #Quote by Nelson Mandela

#122. I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there. #Quote by Maria Shriver

#123. Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them. #Quote by Josie Bissett

#124. We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us. #Quote by Bradley Whitford

#125. This was one of the last weekends before we'd be the seniors, and I was thinking about what that meant. About how these rituals of prom, the luau, and graduation that we'd watched for years were suddenly personal. #Quote by Robyn Schneider

#126. In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. #Quote by Ted Nelson

#127. Risk being seen in all of your glory. #Quote by Jim Carrey

#128. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. #Quote by Paul Ryan

#129. I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. #Quote by David Eddings

#130. North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? #Quote by Bobby Heenan

#131. 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. #Quote by Alistair Cooke

#132. I consider the two years in Beaufort when I taught high school as perhaps the happiest time of my life. My attraction to melodrama and suffering had not yet overwhelmed me, but signs of it were surfacing. No one had warned me that a teacher could fall so completely in love with his students that graduation seemed like the death of a small civilization. #Quote by Pat Conroy

#133. I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though ... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day. #Quote by Kimberly Quinn

#134. Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor". #Quote by Sherman Alexie

#135. Antiracist teaching is a process. It is a process without end, without a graduation and a certification as officially antiracist, which is all the better reason to work with urgency. #Quote by Tom Rademacher

#136. I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. #Quote by Marc Garneau

#137. 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. #Quote by Bill Vaughan

#138. Teaching Career does not begin with the completion of graduation and post graduation and attaining a degree – it begins the moment one starts caring about learners. #Quote by Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#139. Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself. #Quote by Quentin Bryce

#140. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces. #Quote by Amy Poehler

#141. A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. #Quote by Sheryl Sandberg

#142. I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. #Quote by James Stewart

#143. I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers. #Quote by Lester Holt

#144. When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. #Quote by Angela Bassett

#145. There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. #Quote by Orrin Hatch

#146. I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles. #Quote by Michael Bloomberg

#147. If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game. #Quote by Chris Matthews

#148. We're supposed to be reckless and careless and wild. And none of it is supposed to hurt. If we've kissed too many people, smoked too many cigarettes, had too much to drink, laughed too hard, offended too many people - we've done it right. We haven't wasted any time. And Nathan and I have a lot of catching up to do. #Quote by Alexis Bass

#149. 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 mind is yours forever. #Quote by Louis L'Amour

#150. People will say you can't do good and do well. They're wrong, that's idiotic advice. #Quote by Soledad O'Brien

#151. Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why. #Quote by Alexandra Robbins

#152. Bad things are gonna' happen to you, because they happen to us all. And worrying won't stave the really bad things off. Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to other people's blow-dried outsides. Even the most privileged person in this stadium suffers the torments of the damned just going about the business of being human. #Quote by Mary Karr

#153. I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. #Quote by Anne Lamott

#154. I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. #Quote by Maureen Forrester

#155. My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini. #Quote by Oliver E. Williamson

#156. The world is a classroom,
nature is our teacher,
life is our exam,
and death is our graduation.

The world is a sage,
humanity are its students,
the universe is a master,
and gurus are its graduates. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#157. Become the adviser to presidents and an honored member of New England society. Ohiyesa, or Eastman, went to Beloit College where he learned English and immersed himself in the culture and ways of the white world. Upon graduation he went east. He attended Dartmouth College, then was accepted into medical school at Boston University, which he completed in 1890. He returned to his native Midwest to work among his own people as a physician on the Pine Ridge reservation, #Quote by Kent Nerburn

#158. My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section. #Quote by Norm Crosby

#159. You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human ... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative (no author does, I can tell you), you could nevertheless create it. #Quote by Toni Morrison

#160. There is no delete button for bigotry. #Quote by Tom Brokaw

#161. I studied philosophy in college and didn't realize until my senior year that no one would pay me to philosophize when I graduated. My frantic search for a "post-graduation plan" led me to law school mostly because other graduate programs required you to know something about your field of study to enroll; law schools, it seemed, didn't require you to know anything. At Harvard, I could study law while pursuing a graduate degree in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, which appealed to me. #Quote by Bryan Stevenson

#162. Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible. #Quote by Fred Armisen

#163. There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate. #Quote by Henny Youngman

#164. As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time. #Quote by Alan Alda

#165. Wow, Carter. You've got a HUGE wiener.
Suddenly, Gavin being in the bathroom with me didn't seem so bad. If only he could have been in the
bathroom with me in eighth grade and passed that little tidbit around for Penny Frankles to hear, I might
not have gone to the eight grade graduation dance solo.
I finished pissing, zipped up my pants and flushed the toilet, all while trying not to pat myself on the
back. Yeah, I had a huge wiener. You bet your sweet ass I did. I almost needed a wheelbarrow to carry it
around. And because a toddler said it, it must have been true.
We got back to the table and I couldn't keep the shit-eating grin off of my face. #Quote by Tara Sivec

#166. I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. #Quote by Daniel J. Evans

#167. 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. #Quote by Woody Hayes

#168. He was some sort of boxing champion," she told me the night she took me out to celebrate my graduation. "He was always punching someone in the nose."
"Macho," I said.
"No," she said. "It was the clarity of expression that appealed to him. #Quote by Melissa Bank

#169. I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops. #Quote by Andy Samberg

#170. What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#171. I graduated from the University of Whatever. #Quote by Dana Snyder

#172. Be yourself,its the best thing you can be. #Quote by Selena Gomez

#173. 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. #Quote by Ernest Holmes

#174. 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. #Quote by Jane Lynch

#175. I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. #Quote by Tobias Wolff

#176. For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness. I like to call this enlightening-ment. #Quote by Jennifer Howard

#177. It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. #Quote by Oprah Winfrey

#178. The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. #Quote by Harry Wong

#179. And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be-eagles, not chickens. #Quote by Desmond Tutu

#180. Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody - no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds ... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. #Quote by Neil Gaiman

#181. I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed. #Quote by Warren Buffett

#182. The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows
out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after) ... #Quote by Elizabeth Savage

#183. When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first? #Quote by Bill Cosby

#184. For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. #Quote by Alexa Von Tobel

#185. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. #Quote by Parker Stevenson

#186. Every in group distinguishes itself from the outgroup by some process of "going through the mill" or enduring sufferings which are subsequently worn as the proud badge of graduation #Quote by Alan W. Watts

#187. My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. #Quote by Jim Evans

#188. When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long. #Quote by Gloria Stuart

#189. Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#190. If I've learned anything in the twenty-five years that have transpired between graduation and today it is this: I am stronger than I thought I was and weaker than I'd hoped to be, and in between those two extremes is a little thing called life. #Quote by Deborah Copaken Kogan

#191. That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person. #Quote by Jimmy Iovine

#192. A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. #Quote by Horace Mann

#193. I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. #Quote by Junior Seau

#194. You won't be able to do this ten years from now - just leave everything behind and go. #Quote by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

#195. Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them. #Quote by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#196. My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. #Quote by Ruth Westheimer

#197. There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get it wrong, you'll miss big opportunities. And I mean big-like the Internet. Careers are not ladders, those days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don't just move up and down, don't just look up, look backwards, sideways around corners. Your career and your life will have starts and stops and zigs and zags. Don't stress out about the white space-the path you can't draw- because there in lies both the surprises and the opportunities. #Quote by Sheryl Sandberg

#198. Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. #Quote by Douglas Wilson

#199. John and Jenny's planes arrived in Rome only hours apart. They had never imagined, when they walked away from each other graduation night 1960, it would be forty years and five thousand miles away before they would meet again. #Quote by Thomas Allen

#200. Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything ... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn. #Quote by Bobbi Brown