Graduation Quotes

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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

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

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

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.

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

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.