Inspirational Graduation Quotes for Graduates

Graduation cards are distributed among friends and classmate in this graduation season. And graduation speeches also come to mind, you may be looking for some wisdom words for the day. Encouraging and hopeful quotes for graduates are the best gifts to guide them on their future journey.

There are some inspirational graduation quotes which are both practical for use in a speech and in a graduation card.

Congratulations! Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!
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

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.

— Robert Orben

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

– Jon Stewart, the College of William & Mary 2004

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.”  Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.

– Orrin Hatch

Your families are extremely proud of you.  You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing.  This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.

– Gary Bolding

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.

— Arie Pencovici

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— William Arthur Ward

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

— Benjamin Franklin

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

— Steve Jobs

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