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.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Ambition, enterprise, effort and success are largely states of mind; happiness is the United States.
"No effort is wasted when God is in control; success is always at the end of the tunnel."
One of the biggest lessons I have learned in life, is you learn nothing from success.
When love and passion are introduced into a project, then nothing awaits you but success.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
What is the secret to the success of the show?" "How it lasted 25 years?"
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
What we’re getting instead are waves of poor people with a high school education or less.
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded.