Quotes on Graduation

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.