Inspirational Graduation Quotes - Page 2

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

John Wooden

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Graduation, Education, Time

Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Wendy Wasserstein

Graduation, Encouraging, Dream

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Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

Inspirational, Graduation, Mistake

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

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Graduation, Senior, College

"Dexter: Popping Cherry". TV series, 2006.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

Bill Cosby

Graduation, Mean, People

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Neil Gaiman

Graduation, Mistake, Graduates

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

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

Richard Halliburton

Graduation, Senior, Memorable

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If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Eartha Kitt

Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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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

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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

Anatole France

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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

Sydney J. Harris

Graduation, Education, Wall

Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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

Judy Garland

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Eleanor Powell

Inspirational, Life, Graduation

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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, Success, Happy

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

Graduation, Education, Teacher

New Scientist 21 May 1964

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