Quotes on Graduation

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.