Powerful Graduation Quotes and Sayings

Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too. — Patrick Ness

The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear. — Grace Helbig

Now the first suggestion is to aim high, but be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live. — Sandra Day O’Connor

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate. — Carol Burnett

It’s always a good move to listen to that inner voice…if it doesn’t lead to a crime. – Lisa Kudrow

Believe and act is if it were impossible to fail. — Charles Kettering

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. — Mahatma Gandhi

The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it? — Benjamin Franklin

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

Don’t underestimate the power of your dreams. — Corinna Kong

0. You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. —Oprah Winfrey

There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. —Nelson Mandela

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein

Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day. — Premier Brian Gallant

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C.S. Lewis

The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln

No, sky is not the limit. It is only the beginning. — Donovan Livingston

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them. —H Jackson Brown Jr.

There are no regrets in life. Just lessons. —Jennifer Aniston

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.” — Ed Koch

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye. – Helen Keller

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Gandhi

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. – Ella Fitzgerald

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — Shakespeare

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules. — Neil Gaiman

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. — Kyle Chandler

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. — Alfred Mercier

Follow your fear. — Tina Fey

Education is the ability to meet life’s situations. — John G. Hibben

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. — Truman Capote

Set your goals, take the action, live your dreams. — Catherine Pulsifer

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth reading. — Benjamin Franklin

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. — Alexander Graham Bell

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old; they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. —Gabriel García Márquez

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. — Oscar Wilde

Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. — Maya Angelou

The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will”. — Charles Dickens

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France

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

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate their boldness. — Wayne W. Dyer

Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try. — Sheryl Sandberg

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – E.E. Cummings

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Confucius

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. – Mark Twain

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know it when you find it. —Steve Jobs

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. — Hillary Clinton

You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up. — Aaron Sorkin

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. – Leonardo da Vinci

Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer. —David McCullough Jr.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. – Dali

No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid. —Lupita Nyong’o

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. — Nora Ephron

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

When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. — Adlai E. Stevenson

You have to dance a little bit before you step out into the world each day, because it changes the way you walk. — Sandra Bullock

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. – Jon Stewart

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. — Napoleon Hill

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. — Jon Stewart

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. – Barack Obama

It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. — Woody Allen

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. – Dale Carnegie

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. — Denzel Washington

The world rewards those who take responsibility for their own success. – Curt Gerrish

Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother. — Melanie White

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. — Arnold H. Glasow

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. — Anthony Robbins

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. — Anna Quindlen

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. By all means, you should follow that. – Ellen DeGeneres

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — Henry Ford

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.— Michael Dell

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. – Muhammad Ali

Why fit in when you were born to stand out? — Dr. Seuss

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. — Oprah Winfrey

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. — Milton Berle

It is absolutely still possible to make a difference. — Michelle Obama

Showing up is 80 percent of life. – Woody Allen

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. — Lee Ann Womack

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. — Sydney Harris

My wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to. Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small and that you never need to carry more than you can hold. – Rascal Flatts

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. — B.B. King

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. — Robin Williams

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. — Ronnie Lott

Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life. — Gloria Davidson

Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try. – William Arthur Ward

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison

Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have to make things happen. — Florence Griffith-Joyner

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in. — Dick Costolo

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Charles Swindoll

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you’ll have more beads than you know what to do with. —Ellen DeGeneres

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. — Kristian Kan

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. — Fred Dehner

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. — Arthur Ashe

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right. – Henry Ford

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. — Frederick W. Robertson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. —John A. Shedd

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

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. — Rosalynn Smith Carter

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. — John F. Kennedy

I have not failed. I’ve just found 0,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Do or do not. There is no try. — Yoda

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. — Wendy Wasserstein

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. — Henry Peter Brougham

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. — Frank A. Clark

Success doesn’t rush. The greatest reward is the journey! — Jeff Moore

Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out. — Art Linkletter

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

There may be days when you’ll say to yourself, ‘I can’t. I literally can’t even.’ But you can! You can even! — Katie Couric

So many of our dreams first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. —Christopher Reeve

Share your sparkle wherever you are. – Dodinsky

The road to success is always under construction. — Lily Tomlin

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. — A.A. Milne

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. — Babe Ruth

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. —Nelson Mandela

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own ”– Michelle Obama

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. — Louisa May Alcott

Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. — Malcolm X

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. — Benjamin Franklin

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. —Dr. Seuss

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland