Graduation Sayings 🧑‍🎓 in 2025

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.

Congrats, you did it! But remember that the hard work has just begun!

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.

You don’t go to university so you can punch a clock. You go to university so you can be in a position to make a difference.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power.

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

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.