Quotes and Sayings

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
- Joseph Addison

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
- Erma Bombeck

I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I’ve done and who I’ve been.
- C. Hoppe

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

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

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
- Tom Brokaw

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
- John Updike

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
- Ben Stein

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
- G.K. Chesterton

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B.F. Skinner

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
- Dr. Seuss

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies ‘commencement exercises’. Graduation is not the end, it’s the beginning.
- Orrin Hatch

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

School’s out, Memories past, Don’t ever doubt, Our friendship will last.
- Unknown

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