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Graduation Quotes

Two of the most popular graduation lines are flagged. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is a paraphrase of John Dewey, not a quotation. The one about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is credited to Einstein and flagged as misattributed.

The page is assembled from the pages on education, success, the future, dreams and learning. It has no graduation speeches in it, but it does have a lot of quotes that get used in them. If you are writing a speech, use the sourced entries; the label will tell you which is which.

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Old scenes to visit, and old dreams to dream,
Shall not to us a task of labour seem.

Nicholas Michell

Teachers find it challenging to create open dialogue in sexuality education while at the same time maintaining discipline.

Catriona Ida Macleod

I really want to be remembered as somebody who reached her success.

Michelle Dee

What we need is a coach education programme so we can get the coaching standards lifted as well. We have not paid much attention to it.

Jimmy Adams

It's the belly of the country. There are all kinds of footballers, I don't see them as angels or demons, but as professionals who believe in their dreams.

Giorgia Cardinaletti

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Benjamin Disraeli

"I cannot control even the dreams that I have made."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus (2003)

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Gabriela Sabatini

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli The Rise of Iskander ch. 4 (1833)

There is no education like adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli Endymion (1880)

We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer (1771)

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Swift Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711)

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

Elbert Hubbard The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey CNN interview (2011)

Discord which appears at first to be a lamentable breach and dissolution of the unity of a party, is really the crowning proof of its success.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test; for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.

Karl Kraus Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

There is no deodorant like success.

Elizabeth Taylor

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead The Aims of Education (1929)

In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.

Paulo Freire Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)

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