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.
But to do for the world more than the world does for you--that is Success.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Massive success and massive inertia are two sides of a coin.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it.
Gentlemen, there is nothing sweeter than success, and you boys have got it!
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.