Graduation is the award of a diploma or academic degree, or the ceremony that is sometimes associated with it, in which students become graduates. Inspirational funny graduation quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Graduation Quotes
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
I mean we all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others. – Michael Jordan
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success. – Robert Orben
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. – Muhammad Ali
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. – Gary Bolding
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don’t do it. I have been out there. It is a mess. – Russell Baker
My dear terrified graduates, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives. The stories you are about to live are the ones you will be telling your children, and grandchildren, and therapists. – Lin-Manuel Miranda
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. – Robert M. Hutchins
Prom night was one of the worst nights of my life. My girlfriend looked fantastic … The problem was, so did her date. – Deion Sanders
Graduation: a ritual event where they award you a diploma, in the hope that you have learned enough to be able to read it. – unknown
Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have to make things happen. – Florence Griffith-Joyner
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. – Garry Trudeau
When they hand you your diploma, keep moving? Just in case they try to take it back. – unknown
It is not the size of the arena in which you find yourself that counts; it is what you do with it. – Dr. Irene C. Kassorla
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. – Robert Goheen
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies ‘commencement exercises’. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. – Orrin Hatch
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. – Erma Bombeck
If learning is like a sponge, don’t ever stop soaking it up. Never stop learning. Catherine Pulsifer
At graduation you get to wear a cap and gown, but it’s a good idea to also wear something underneath it. – Greg Tamblyn
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
Moving Forward
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. – John Green
Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life. – Gloria Davidson
If at first you don’t succeed, try to hide your astonishment. – Harry Banks
Don’t ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don’t wait until you’re ‘successful,’ because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck. – Peter Farrelly
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someonelse’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that. – Ellen DeGeneres
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open. – Thomas Dewar
The tassel’s worth the hassle! – unknown
So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you’re on the right track. – Ed Helms
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
It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. – Jerry Zucker
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. – Frank A. Clark
Remember, when it come to applying for jobs, books ARE judged by their cover! – Patricia Akins
Remember, when it comes to applying for jobs, books ARE judged by their cover! – Patricia Akins
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. – Bette Reese
Applying common sense helps us find simple and reasonable ways of doing things. Many refer to this as the KISS method, ‘Keep It Simple Simon. – Henry Adkins
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. – unknown
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success. – Robert Orben
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. – Newton D. Baker
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. – Sarah Brown
