Quotes on Graduation

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. In professional circles it's called networking. In organizations it's called team building. And in life it's called family, friends, and community. We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.