Graduation Quotes - Page 10

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

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.

You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.

Education is the best provision for old age.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

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

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

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.