Top Graduation Quotes

If you're delivering a speech or just want to include a thoughtful message in a greeting card, a relevant quote can help you get the job done.

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

- Aristotle

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end, it's the beginning."

- Orrin Hatch

"Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone."

- Former President Bill Clinton

"Shoot for the moon. Even if your miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Les Brown

"People will frighten you about a graduation. They use words you don't hear often. 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

- Bill Cosby

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."

- Doug Larson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.”

- Walt Disney

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

- Nelson Mandela