Inspirational Graduation Quotes

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation. ~ Jane Lynch

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~ John Updike

My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and-I hope-with some measure of success. ~ Elie Wiesel

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run. ~ Adam Savage

Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race. ~ Sharyn Alfonsi

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably. ~ Biz Stone

I have learned to go fully in the face of my dreams. I would recommend you do the same. Now is the time in your life to be selfish. To explore. To take chances. Remember being selfish is not the same as being self-indulgent. You have the gift of time. Use it to do what you love. Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen. ~ Julianna Margulies

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works. ~ Jamie Hyneman

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. ~ Anna Quindlen

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. ~ T.H. White

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen. ~ Howard Schultz

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We. ~ Margaret Atwood

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. ~ Toni Morrison

Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important thing is to not stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein

It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal. ~ Dalai Lama

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive. ~ Neil Gaiman

I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there. ~ Maria Shriver

Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down. ~ Wilson Mizner

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. ~ Aaron Sorkin

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all. ~ Jane Lynch

And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life. ~ Stephen Colbert

My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either under a threat or for a challenge. In performing when it counts, it's one or the other, under a threat or for a challenge. If, as Einstein says, "Imagination will take you everywhere," then living your life under a threat will take you nowhere. ~ Jim Steen

You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that! ~ Sanjay Gupta

We live by what we believe not but what we see. ~ Angela Ahrendts

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real. ~ Roger Goodell

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be-eagles, not chickens. ~ Desmond Tutu

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. ~ Oprah Winfrey

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep. ~ Amy Poehler

Be yourself,its the best thing you can be. ~ Selena Gomez

Taking responsibility for your life is the biggest challenge you will have, but it is also the most beautiful gift you can give yourself. ~ Steven Aitchison

The moment we notice our thoughts is one of the most transformative experiences we can have. ~ Teresa DeCicco

I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty. ~ Debasish Mridha

They'd fallen into an easy routine, the three of them. Breakfast together in the morning, then Hughie would leave for work and she and Nell would get started in the house. Lil found she liked having a second shadow, enjoyed showing Nell things, explaining how they worked and why. Nell was a big one for asking why-why did the sun hide at night, why didn't the fire flames leap out of the gate, why didn't the river get bored and run the other way?-and Lil loved supplying answers, watching as understanding dawned on Nell's little face. For the first time in her life, Lil felt useful, needed, whole. ~ Kate Morton

Sit in a room and read
and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. ~ Joseph Campbell

Where's the fun in playing with knives if you can't draw a little blood? ~ Donald Gorman

Ben Says: Bullying is not cool ... never is & never was! Be a winner and stop bullying today!
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben ~ Timothy Pina

Live rightly, die nobly. ~ Joseph Conrad

The way you do the small things, is the way you do the big things ~ Steven Aitchison

Travel is rebellion in its purest form.
- we follow our heart
- we free ourselves of labels
- we lose control willingly
- we trade a role for reality
- we love the unfamiliar
- we trust strangers
- we own only what we can carry
- we search for better questions, not answers
- we truly graduate
- we, sometimes, choose never to come back. ~ Anonymous

All love began with a tingling in the heart and a beautiful small smile. ~ Debasish Mridha

A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment ... ~ CrimethInc.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. ~ Andrew Carnegie

When you learn to enjoy every little event and you learn to see beauty in every little thing, you will reach the door of eternal happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Society is collapsing, and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they're mentally ill is that they're living in a system that's not designed to suit the human spirit. ~ Russell Brand

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. ~ Amy Tan

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I believe in a higher consciousness. I also believe that nature is supremely conscious. A tree is more conscious than we are. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style. ~ Maya Angelou

Use your beak energy not to blab but to poke through the eggshell. ~ N

Only through the empowerment of society to be the very best it can be in a moral way, might we acheive peace through achievement. ~ Carl T. Johnson

Do not fear weakness. Lean on God who will be your strength through every dark storm. ~ Dana Arcuri

Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box. ~ Elias Zerhouni

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. ~ Friedrich Schiller

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. ~ Max Beerbohm

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face. ~ Rick Yancey

We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sadly, we can't live forever. But we can write something that will. ~ T.N. Suarez

Without imagination & dreams, we lose the excitement of wonderful possibilities. ~ Cynthia Roberts

Let's go with what you have to get what you want. ~ Debasish Mridha

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing. ~ A.D. Posey

Dare to imagine, create and share it with the world! ~ R.C. Henningsen

You are the world. Everything that you see around you is a reflection of your soul and mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

Believe in your child's dreams...then watch them change the world! ~ Stephanie Teer

If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance. ~ Cinda Williams Chima

The ego says, win the world to find peace. The spirit says, win yourself over to find peace. ~ Debasish Mridha

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy. ~ Wahida Clark

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them. ~ Debasish Mridha

Do what is right for the right reasons. ~ L.M. Fields

Life is stretching to achieve goals, and exploring new things, and struggling to overcome obstacles. Life is not just breathing in and out. I think immortality would make all these things that add up to our lives hollow and meaningless. ~ Kevin McDonald

Destroy the one who thinks you can be destroyed. You're invincible. Nothing destroys you. Nothing. ~ Sarvesh Jain

Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna. ~ Maximus The Confessor

Those who are hardest to love need it the most ~ Pattie Mallette

If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it! ~ Trooper

You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions and creation. ~ Debasish Mridha