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 always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
Success, in life, is most easily measured by the number of days you are truly happy.
Happiness and success come from living in the present, not from existing in the past.
When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.
There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.