Graduation Commencement Quotes

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

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.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

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

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

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

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

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.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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.

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

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

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

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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

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.

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

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.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

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

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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

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

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

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

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

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.