Introduction: Inspirational Quotes for Graduates
It’s graduation time. Famous people are delivering commencement speeches. Some people are giving advice, solicited and unsolicited to new graduates. As a new graduate, think of your life as a blank canvas. You can paint any picture that you’d like. How will you use your canvas? Will you follow the masses and paint something as ordinary as fruits? Or will you plan out your canvas, to do something extraordinary, one section of your canvas at a time?
17 Inspirational Quotes for Graduates
Instead of dispensing advice that you do not want, instead, you can read the inspirational quotes for graduates to encourage you to reach for more.
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” Dr. Seuss
“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” Colin Powell
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.” Michael Dell
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allan Poe
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” J.K. Rowling
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman
“Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.” Barack Obama to Barnard College in 2012
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” Alexander the Great
“If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.” Heraclitus
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“Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.” Sandra Day O’Connor to Gettysburg College in 2008
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney
“I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.” J.K. Rowling to Harvard University in 2008
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“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” Tom Brokaw
“Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.” Bruce Eric Kaplan
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