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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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It is important to grow people. To realise that people are individuals with their dreams.

Oreoluwa Lesi

You can’t win on talent alone. Talent on its own does not produce success.

Mamokgethi Phakeng

No country can develop unless its citizens are educated. Education does not change the world. Education changes people, people change the world

Olugbemiro Jegede

Very often people abroad see us talking about our free education as some sort of empty political slogan but in fact it is a reality and a priority.

Nancy Morejón Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

The level of success you desire is going to take some hard work, and some sleepless nights. It's up to you to determine how bad do you really want it?

Priscilla Williams

I did not run to be the first woman (elected to the Senate). I didn’t run from that perspective at all. I ran because education needed help.

Ann Bedsole

Education taught me how to think critically and face challenges. You also learn how to interact with many different people.

Wanuri Kahiu

There are not many places in this world that take your education and training as seriously as this university. It achieves excellence, because it cares.

Fiona Wood

I will tell them to never stop believing in their dreams. Keep working hard and keep praying, because you never know when your breakthrough will come.

Udoka Unachukwu

Don't be afraid to fail. Failure is just another stepping stone to success.

Philip Emeagwali

Disabled people were seen as welfare cases. They were put in institutions, denied access to education and seen as people who needed to be looked after.

Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu

Education is an investment; if you can't invest, you don't have to (invest). All of us can't go to the university; it doesn't happen anywhere in the world.

Anthony Anwuka

Any society that must stand the test of time must invest in education. Education remains the bedrock of sustainable development.

Michael Opeyemi Bamidele

The biggest problem is a lack of development locally, especially at grassroots level. Steven, May, Benni (all our success stories) went overseas at a young age.

Matthew Booth

The success goes to the guys in front of me. Remember, defending starts higher up the field.

Wayne Sandilands

Every player dreams of that - to one day play there. That’s what pushes me.

Khulumani Ndamane

Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident.

Abebe Bikila

Shane Watson, I have always admired him as a player, a person and eventually a Captain. He has had so many successes and yet stayed so humble.

Migael Pretorius

It is about contributing to the team’s success. He has to handle the pressure from both ends – while batting and bowling.

Deepak Hooda

Our modes of Education aim ... to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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