Top 10 Graduation Quotes

Graduation season is upon us once again! The quotes are especially useful for college graduations, but could also apply to high school graduates. Each of these quotes addresses the graduate who is going out into the world on a new adventure; and the mindset he or she should take on that journey. These quotes would go well at a yearbook signing, as part of a commencement address, or in a card to your favorite graduate.

Here are my Top 10 favorite Graduation Quotes:

Top Graduation Quote # 1 ~
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~ Confucius

Top Graduation Quote # 2 ~
"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." ~ Mark Twain

Top Graduation Quote # 3 ~
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did." ~ Sarah Caldwell

Top Graduation Quote # 4 ~
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ~ First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of 32nd US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt 1884-1962)

Top Graduation Quote # 5 ~
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." ~ Milton Berle

Top Graduation Quote # 6 ~
"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything." ~ Win Borden

Top Graduation Quote # 7 ~
"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." ~ Eleanor Powell

Top Graduation Quote # 8 ~
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." ~ Frank A. Clark

Top Graduation Quote # 9 ~
"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

Top Graduation Quote # 10 ~
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." ~ Theodore Roosevelt (26th American US President 1901-09)

Happy Graduation!!

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