These congratulations graduation quotes will inspire you. Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging congratulations graduation quotes, congratulations graduation sayings, and congratulations graduation proverbs.
Best Congratulations Graduation Quotes
- “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.” ~ Orrin Hatch
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.” ~ Ed Koch
- “If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” ~ Nora Roberts
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald
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“There is a good reason they call these ceremonies ‘commencement exercises’. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.” ~ Orrin Hatch
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Confucius
- “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” ~ Carol Burnett
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“You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” ~ Ralph Washington Sockman
- “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain
- “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.” ~ Nora Roberts
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe.” ~ Anatole France
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined…” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “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.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Harry taught me that death isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.” ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
- “Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.” ~ Neil Gaiman , Congratulations graduation quotes on mistakes
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“Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” ~ David Lloyd George
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” ~ Beverly Sills
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~ Aristotle
- “The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.” ~ Newton D. Baker
- “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” ~ Francis Bacon
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“Openness isn’t the end. It’s the beginning.” ~ Margaret Heffernan
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
- “To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” ~ e. e. cummings
- “All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.” ~ Walt Disney
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“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” ~ James Truslow Adams
- “Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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“You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” ~ David Lloyd George
- “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.” ~ Nora Roberts
- “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living.” ~ Robert Jones Burdette
- “It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” ~ Norman Cousins
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “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.” ~ Joss Whedon
- “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.” ~ Nora Roberts
- “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.” ~ Tom Brokaw
- “Living well is the best revenge. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Max Eastman
- “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.” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” ~ Tom Brokaw
- “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.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.” ~ Fred Allen
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“Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all – to the center of oneself.” ~ Quentin Bryce
- “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.” ~ Henry B. Eyring , Congratulations graduation quotes on education
- “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.” ~ Michelangelo Antonioni
- “In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.” ~ Horace Kephart
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“Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” ~ Harry Wong
- “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.” ~ Junior Seau
