Graduation Quotes

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

~ Richard Halliburton

When it comes to learning, there are no boundaries and restrictions literally; all you have to do is to start it where you are.

~ Auliq Ice

I will miss younot because you taught me,not because you helped me on all steps of education;but only becauseyou made me a leader to lead as an perfect Electrical Engineer.

~ Hasil Paudyal

Character is a course, finish it.

~ Mac Canoza

Congratulations!Today is your dayYou're off to great placesYou're off and awayYou've got brains in your headYou've got feet in your shoesYou can steer yourself anyDirection you chooseYou're on your ownAnd you know what you knowAnd you are the guyWho'll decide where you goOut there things can happenAnd frequently doTo people as brainyAnd footsy as youAnd will you succeed?Yes you will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)You're off to great placesToday is your dayYour mountain is waitingGo, get on your way!

~ Hafiz

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

~ John Green

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!

~ Kamand Kojouri

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.

~ Mitch Albom

Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

~ Emily Henry

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

~ Jim Carrey

Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose in pictures with her and cheer when her name was called? In her mind, she only saw pictures they would never take, arms around each other, her mother gaining little wrinkles around her eyes from smiling so much.

~ Brit Bennett

The memory of sacred moment is unforgettable.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred how many will do anything truly worthwhile, write a play, paint a painting that will hang in a gallery, find a cure for herpes? Two of us, maybe three? And how many will find true love? About the same. And enlightenment? Maybe one. The rest of us will make compromises, find excuses, someone or something to blame, and hold that over our hearts like a pendant on a chain.

~ Janet Fitch

Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it's a compliment.

~ Marilynn Dawson

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

~ Teacher David Mccullough

The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is youniversity. YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw that every one of them signed except for her. I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised.We were too much of everything to be summed up in a few sentences. -Sean Foster

~ Rainbowbrook

Theologians should study in a seminary and before graduating they should make a visit to heaven and hell after which they should submit their thesis and graduate.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be ironic, though. I can wear them to, like, truck stops at night with mascara running down my cheeks and stuff.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

~ Sherman Alexie

We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We’re the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we’ve crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what’s up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman, only this one doesn’t have any letup in him.

~ Tim Tharp

How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?

~ Rachel Kapelke-Dale

You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.

~ Rachel Kapelke-Dale

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

~ Amit Kalantri

Even if you think you are thinking and acting globally, there is always more to learn and know!

~ Auliq Ice

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

~ Robert Orben

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

~ Nina Lacour

some people graduate on time. some others graduate at the right time. no matter about the time you graduations, you have to take responsibility to finish your college when you choose to start it. not for your parents, not for your friends, but for you. when you graduate, you'll be at the higher lever than your life before. remember, you don't have to be smarter, all you have to do is be the work harder than others.

~ Nunki Artura

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.

~ Mary Karr

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.

~ Mary Karr

A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

~ Mary Karr

Education has become a ritual... Hence done by all parents... I don't see people with degrees acquired in 16-18 years know their subjects... So what's the point to feed schools with money... Our system makes every thing commercial and ritualistic... it's about security of work as it used to be in 50s to 80s... when the graduates were less... but now degree is not a promise for success... Education should create better performing humans and not Humans performing better in academics.

~ Talees Rizvi

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

~ Irvine Welsh