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.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
We shall overcome and success will be ours in the future. The future belongs to us.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success!
Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.
All Fabulous Tales are merely dreams of that home world, which is everywhere and nowhere.