Top 1200 Inspiring Graduation Quotes & Sayings

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.

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I always look for inspiration. If I find something that's inspiring, I'm so excited because it is very hard to find something inspiring.

I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.

I didn't even go to graduation.

I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.

Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.

Even though I am a woman boxer, I am not just inspiring women; I hope I am inspiring boys as well.

I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22, the youngest RJ in Delhi at that time.

I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

School days were very special to me as I never found the time to complete my graduation.

Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation, looking for acting chances, it was for dubbing that I was first tried.

I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

Chicago's music scene is very inspiring. I like to think of it as a small community of friends who enjoy creating and inspiring each other.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

I have studied and graduated out of Delhi. I moved to Mumbai after graduation.

When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over.

Different personalities inspire me as an actor. Especially quirky personalities, maybe people I wouldn't normally get along with or be friends with - I find them inspiring for my work. I find sad emotions to be inspiring and stories of great people that kind of overcame odds.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

I have done my post graduation in Business Administration.

Music is very inspiring to me because "true" music releases a true energy that is just inspiring. It's like when you see a beautiful painting or a wonderful film. You just receive this creative energy, and all of a sudden you want to create too.

I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.

I did schooling and graduation from Delhi and then went to the National School of Drama.

I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.

?s I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.

You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.

New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.

I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.

Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

As a child I loved fantasy books, I loved Harry Potter and the idea that there is something 'out there' is inspiring to kids and inspiring to me. It's exciting and I think people can relate to it. Even if things are difficult or bad for you, the idea that there is something special within you is positive and true.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.