Graduation Quotes - Page 21

• Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Education, Wisdom

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• Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Inspiring, Courage

  "Dictionary of Thoughts". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 22, 1908.

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Loneliness

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  World, Green Gables

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• Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mistake, Graduates, Graduating High School

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• You can't always get what you want.

  Mick Jagger

  Encouraging, Trying, Want

  "Song: 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'". 1969.

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• Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Great Love, Looks

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.34, Random House

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• 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

  Justice, Car, Ceilings

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• Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Stars

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• You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The 8 Best Sound Bites Of Graduation Advice" by Therese Borchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

  Julie Taymor

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• 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.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Christian, Educational, Passion

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• Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Alice Miller

  Heart, College, People

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• Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

  Clare Oliver

  Motivational, Destiny, Self Reliance

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• When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 17, 2013

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• Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspiring, Yogurt, Milk

  TV Series "The Colbert Report", November 12, 2009.

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• I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  May, Want, Today

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• It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all, love and faith. If you are trying to decide what you should do, those are the things you should do. And you know it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Loyalty, Honesty, Hard Work

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• 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.

  David Eddings

  Inspirational, Funny, Degrees

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• I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Inspirational, Funny, Military

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• 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.

  Parker Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Couple

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• I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

  Peter Gallagher

  Inspirational, Funny, Regret

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• Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  College, Men, University

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