Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results."
Graduation quotes
Graduation
499 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having."
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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"Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth."
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"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
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"Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."
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"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."
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"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
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"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
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"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do."
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"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
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"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
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"Knowledge is power."
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"This above all; to thine own self be true."
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