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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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Most quoted on graduation:

Yeah. I was going for political science, but now everybody came to terms with it because I found success, but at first, it was definitely questionable.

Rubi Rose

With success and a literary career one becomes an unquestioning part of the mechanism, whereas the only truly important years are those in which one is unknown.

Emil Cioran

“Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,” said Joanna

Agatha Christie The Moving Finger (1942)

...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.

Anthony Burgess

Look, I don’t want to punish anyone’s success, but the wealthy have been getting a free ride at the expense of the middle class for too long.

Joe Biden

It was January and snowing like crazy. It was tough; the food was terrible. Eighteen months of my life for nothing? I thought my own dreams were more important.

Tarkan

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil there is no education. (tr. H. G. Dakyns, 1897)

Xenophon

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"You are as free as the greatness and sincerity of your dreams"

Abdullah Öcalan

...not just cricket, but the success of athletes in other sports have helped India become a sporting nation.

Anil Kumble

‘I Owe My Success to My Failure‘.

Rati Tsiteladze

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman"

Lionel Messi

What strange Dreams disturb my rest?

John Ogilby The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (1654)

Don’t let anything hold you back. The sky is truly the limit, and your gender should never be a barrier to pursuing your dreams in these industries

Emma Miloyo Emma Miloyo on Changing the World One Action at a Time (2018)

It affects all of us when our education system fails our children

Cheshe Dow

New York City made me dream big, but Nigeria has given me a chance to actualise those dreams.

Idia Aisien

I was brought up in a household where we knew that the greater risk in our lives was not getting education as opposed to getting killed,”

Shabana Basij-Rasikh

My father used to tell us that the only gift he could ever give us was an education.

Victoria Nalongo Namusisi Changing the World One Child at a Time — Victoria Nalongo Namusisi (2013)

The aim was to provide living accommodation at a minimum charge to young girls who had come to Kampala from rural areas to further their education.

Sugra Visram

Children are naturally curious and I would argue that our education system destroys this curiosity and replaces it with anxiety about performance

Hlonipha Mokoena

He wanted to make sure that the son had the same quality of medical education that he’d benefitted from – and that had to include experience in Uganda.

Harriet Mayanja-Kizza

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