Quotes for Graduation

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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napoleon Hill

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. Maya Angelou

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it;
if you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it. Wally Amos

Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't quack like a duck,
soar like an eagle. Kenneth Blanchard

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream,
and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Wayne Dyer

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. Susan B. Anthony

Graduation day is tough for adults.
They go to the ceremony as parents.
They come home as contemporaries.
After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. Erma Bombeck