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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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He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength.
In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.

Kahlil Gibran Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

Where we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted,
We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil was lifted.

George William Russell The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

Try not to measure your success by the success of others. Success should be defined by one person...Yourself.

Lupe Fiasco

The chief business of education... is to attempt to form good habits in children, to improve the understanding, and to check the formation of bad habits.

George Long

My God, it was really coming true. The higher and higher I climbed in education, the more I was finding people I could talk to.

Victor Villaseñor Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)

Education aims at independence of judgment. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.

Everett Dean Martin Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

We have to provide mentorship, practical role models to serve as experience for our girls. It is not just about education.

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

Success has a way of distorting your view. Keep winning, don't wallow in yesterday's success.

Karimot Odebode

Education and skills development form the cornerstone of the priority outcome areas of government."

Elzabe Rockman

Organisations and agencies are to rally round and develop a policy of participation, reward, evaluation and sponsorship in continuing education programmes.

Deborah Egunyomi

For Adloyalty Business Network we have enjoyed incredible success since we started business in 2017.

Freeman Osonuga

I come from a lineage of singing women. My achievements are the dreams they aspired to.

Azana

My recurring dream, for many years now, is of a giant wave about to crash onto a beach where I am with a group of friends. I have premonitory dreams.

Romina Power

You are the only one standing in the way of achieving your dreams... This is the age at which you set the foundation for the rest of your life.

Fatima Chohan

I don’t plan anything. I wake up and put my dreams on paper.

Baya Mahieddine

...the prisoner's dreams is the guard's spirituality

Jean-Paul Sartre Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

So many minds did gird their orbs with beams,
Tho' one did fling the fire;
Heaven flow'd upon the soul in many dreams
Of high desire.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Poet (1830)

He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.

Stephen King Misery (1987)

I predict that https://gov.uk/home-education is going to be dramatically more popular this coming year.

Jimmy Wales

For Education is, Making Men;
So is it now, so was it when
Mark Hopkins sat on one end of a log
And James Garfield sat on the other.

Arthur Guiterman The Light Guitar (1923)

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