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In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.
Sep 29, 2025
The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.
Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
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.
Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the help of heaven to know which of the myriad things we could study we would most wisely learn. We cannot waste time entertaining ourselves when we have the chance to read or to listen to whatever will help us learn what is true and useful. Insatiable curiosity will be our hallmark.
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.
Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.
If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan. Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus. Cordelia: I stand corrected. Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.
I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
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.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
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.
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.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.