Graduation Quotes - Page 5

Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

You can't always get what you want.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous!

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.

People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.