Quotes For Graduation Speeches

Here are a few quotes for graduation speeches that may help to spark your imagination.

Oftentimes, a quote can inspire a whole graduation speech. Quotes for graduation speeches can be taken from anywhere and weaved into your speech to help make it more memorable for your audience.

So check out the graduation quotes below and see if any feel good to you. If you would like to submit a quote for a graduation speech that you think is brilliant, use the form at the end of this page and I will place it here with your name as the submitter!

"You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar
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"Time and tide waits for none."

- Unknown
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"Never say die."

- Unknown
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"Never say die."

- Unknown
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill
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"We were all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

- Benjamin Franklin
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"Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave."

- Prophet Mohammad
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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step."

- Confucius
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"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

- Malcom X
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves."

- Galileo

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

- Jean Nidetch

"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."

- Thomas Edison

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

- Goethe

"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

- Napolean Hill

"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

More quotes for graduation speeches

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

- Pope John XXIII

"Realize that the reason most people fail isn't because of the competition but because of the limits they place upon themselves, allowing defeat to take over. Take responsibility for your destiny. You can come up with a performance, if you can reach down and dig deep enough into your competitive soul. You can overcome tremendous obstacles."

- Bruce Jenner

"So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win."

- Og Mandino

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"As long as you're going to think anyway, think big."

- Donald Trump

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

- Anatole France

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."

- Lee Iacocca