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Inspirational High School Graduation Quotes

“Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

“You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

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

“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

“Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.”

“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.”

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.”

“The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.”

“Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.”

“Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

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

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

“Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”

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

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

“It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.”

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

“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.”

“Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.”

“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

“Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”

“All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself.”

“Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.”