Inspirational Sayings

Graduation Sayings

Find graduation sayings here that provide inspirational and uplifting messages to those who have graduated or for those who have gone on to higher educational pursuits. We all need encouragement from time to time so this use of an inspirational saying may be just what a friend needs. "Those who wish that graduation would come sooner don't really appreciate the fullest opportunity they have." We hope you enjoy these inspirational sayings.
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There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. Orrin Hatch

To graduate is only to say that you are now ready to learn in the real world. Graduation prepares you for methods of learning but does not mean you are worldly educated. Byron Pulsifer

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

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. Edward Koch

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

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.
Adlai Stevenson

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

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.Paul Freund

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Tom Brokaw

Graduation is a time for celebration and a time for reflection. What you do with your education from now on is only a stepping stone to greater learning and accomplishments.Byron Pulsifer

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Brooks Atkinson

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Garry Trudeau



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