Graduation Quotes - Page 3

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

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.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

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

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.