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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
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.
- Garry Trudeau
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.
- Woody Allen
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
- Gary Bolding
Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
- Newton D. Baker
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
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.
- Newton D. Baker
Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Life is my college. May i graduate well, and earn some honors!
- Louisa May Alcott
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
- Isabel Waxman
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
- Ralph Marston
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
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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.
- Paul Freund
When you leave here, don't forget why you came.
- Adlai Stevenson
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
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
- Newton D. Baker
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
- A. Lawrence Lowell
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
- Robert Goheen
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
The truth is, i was afraid the day i walked into Stanford. And i was afraid the day I walked out.
- Carly Fiorina
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi
I learned law so well, the day i graduated i sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
- Fred Allen
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
- John Updike
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
- Newton D. Baker
The tassel's worth the hassle!
- Newton D. Baker
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
- Edward Koch
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
- Newton D. Baker
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.
- Arie Pencovici
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Education is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises.' Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
- Orrin Hatch
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills
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
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
- Eleanor Powell
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
- Richard Halliburton
Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
- William Lyon Phelps
My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'
- Jim Fox
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
- Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
- Euripides
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
- Russell Green
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Henry Ford
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
- William Arthur Ward
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
- Doug Larson
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
- Ralph W. Sockman
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
- Bishop Mandell Creighton
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
- Sydney J. Harris
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
- Andy McIntyre
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
- A.A. Milne
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
- Fred Dehner
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
- Roger Babson
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Arnold H. Glasow
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen
Put your future in good hands - your own.
- Newton D. Baker
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
