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.
Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Not merely giving the mind a slight tincture but a thorough and perfect dye.
Learn, O youth, virtue from me and true labor; fortune from others.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, * * * but he also wins.
He has carried every point, who has mingled the useful with the agreeable.
Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.