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.
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
For a moment
The surrounding utters no sound.
Time ceases.
The Paradise of Dreams come true.
Success makes people - people not related to you or to your field - like to take a dig at you.
It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success.
Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
The success of SpaceShipOne was Justice Day for dreamers and pioneers past, present and future.
Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams. (beginning of "The Miracle")
Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!
The success is not in the trophy won but in the race run ...