Recirculated wisdom for graduates
Graduation Day!
It fills the heart with mixed feelings — fulfillment and sadness, anxiety and eagerness.
Young people say goodbye to the comfortable and secure life within the high school walls or college campus. It's time to move on to college, or to get in step with the fast-pace beat of the business world.
Uncertainty about the future looms large over new graduates as they hang up their caps and gowns, and spread their wings.
Everyone knows a fresh graduate needs oodles of advice and inspiration. Graduation speakers have plenty of things to say. So do the saccharine sentiments of graduation cards.
Instead of piling on with platitudes of our own, we offer the following variously illuminating thoughts from brighter minds than ours.
Hopefully this re-circulated wisdom will provide graduates some direction, guidance, and a few chuckles along the way.
Congratulations!
Robert Orben
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.
Author Unknown
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
Newton D. Baker
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
John Updike
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
Edward Koch
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Tom Brokaw
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.
Les Brown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Richard Halliburton
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
Woody Allen
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
Arie Pencovici
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.
Gary Bolding
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.
Doug Larson
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
James D'arcy
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.
Garry Trudeau
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.
Source Unknown
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
George Foreman
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
Robert Goheen
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Proverb
You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.
Dr. Seuss
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So
Source Unknown
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?
Wayne Dyer
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star.
