Wayne Dyer
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Orrin Hatch
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Doug Larson
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Fred Allen
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Paul Freund
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.
Erma Bombeck
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.
Edmund Hillary
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
Newton D. Baker
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Tom Brokaw
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.
Louisa May Alcott
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
Russell Green
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Sydney Harris
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Gary Bolding
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
Ed Koch
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.
A. A. Milne
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Robert Purvis
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.
George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Garry Trudeau
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Alice Drue Miller
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.
