Graduation Quotes - Page 15

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

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

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

Oh, the places you will go.

As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)