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Graduation Quotes - Page 2

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

"Mourning David Bowie, Dead at 69" by Nicole Silverberg, www.gq.com. January 11, 2016.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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.

"Julie Andrews To CU-Boulder Grads: ‘Be An Ambassador For The Kind Of World That You Want To Live In’". The Boulder Daily Camera with Brittany Anas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

"Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw (1733). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and made English from the Originals, with occasional notes, To explain what is obscure; and show how far the several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of all the Parts of Knowledge, have been executed to the Present Time”, p.99

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.66, Vintage

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Aug 19, 2013