Graduation Quotes

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

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.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

Believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there, that you will have an impact, as a result of what you do. And you don't need to know now what that would be or how will it happen because no one ever does.

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either under a threat or for a challenge. In performing when it counts, it's one or the other, under a threat or for a challenge. If, as Einstein says, "Imagination will take you everywhere," then living your life under a threat will take you nowhere.

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

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.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

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

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

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

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.