Funny Commencement Quotes - Page 2

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tom Brokaw

Graduation, Thinking, Tickets

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To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

"A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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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.

Paul A. Freund

Cute, Graduation, Squares

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A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

Graduation, Work, Wealth

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

Bill Cosby

Graduation, Mean, Warning

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss

Graduation, Being Single, Self Confidence

Dr. Seuss (2017). “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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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

Motivational, Graduation, Education

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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ralph Washington Sockman

Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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

John Updike

Inspirational, Graduation, Hands

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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Nelson Henderson

Inspirational, Life, Graduation

"Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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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

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

"Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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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

Father, Doing What You Love, Lessons

"Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A. A. Milne

Graduation, Education, Memorable

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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

Graduation, Wise, Encouragement

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The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Carly Fiorina

Graduation, Memorable, Truth Is

"Words of Wisdom / This year's commencement speakers offer career advice for tough days ahead" by Vanessa Hua, www.sfgate.com. June 23, 2001.

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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.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Funny, Cute, Graduation

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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Positive, Graduation

H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.79, Harper Collins

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