Inspirational Graduation Quotes

Graduation not only marks the end of childhood, but the beginning of a new chapter in life, a step across the bridge from the carefree and perhaps sheltered days of living home - to the hustle and bustle of going away to college or starting out in the 'real world'. Share these quotes with your soon to be or recent grad; they are sure to motivate and inspire.

#1

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

~ Dr. Seuss

#2

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3

I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

~Author Unknown

#4

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

#5

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

~ Anatole France

#6

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

~ Henry David Thoreau

#7

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

#8

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

~ Walt Disney

#8

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

~ Wayne Dyer

#10

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11

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

~ Nelson Mandela

#12

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

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

#13

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

~ George Bernard Shaw

#14

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.

~ Robert Purvis

#15

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

#16

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

~ Milton Berle

#17

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

~ Erma Bombeck

#18

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

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#19

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

~ Orrin Hatch

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