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.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do
so many a dangerous thing.