Quotes on Graduation

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all, love and faith. If you are trying to decide what you should do, those are the things you should do. And you know it.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.