Top 1200 Inspiring Graduation Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter's graduation. So many people don't have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.

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Are the people in your life inspiring you or tiring you?

I need to continue inspiring the young generation.

I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring.

We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

Amy Adams is incredible and inspiring - she's amazing.

The people who are inspiring and strong for me are the ones who acknowledge vulnerabilities.

Honestly, I had a very realistic, probably pessimistic outlook at the beginning of my career post-graduation of drama school. In general, I would see black women, usually older, playing a certain archetype on procedural shows. I thought, 'Okay, that's what I have to look forward to.'

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

I find most children quite inspiring.

When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.

When you date someone who loves the outdoors, it's inspiring.

I can't be everywhere, but I'm always in one of my kitchens, and hopefully I'm motivating and inspiring.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.

After completing my graduation, I went to Mumbai and started working as an assistant casting director. I worked on films like 'Talaash,' 'Ek Mai Aur Ekk Tu,' 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani' and 'Student Of The Year,' among others.

To serve in the modern military - or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does - is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children's graduation from basic training.

I love that feeling of inspiring other women.

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

I've had such an inspiring and formative journey in my career.

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

I love Khaliji music; it's very inspiring.

It's one of the most beautiful, inspiring places I've ever been to.

It's always inspiring to watch live music.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud when Chicago recently made computer science mandatory as a requirement for graduation. To see this elevate to the level of a bigger conversation is progress.

Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

Meeting President Obama was amazing. Very inspiring.

Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my senior year to worry too seriously about my post-graduation prospects. Indeed, most of my professors, advisors, and mentors reinforced this complacency.

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it's this kind of crazy thing that you always know you're going to finish school inevitably, but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.

My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak.

For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring.

It's inspiring to play a woman who stands up for herself.

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

All of the vintage photos of Ballets Russes are so inspiring.

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

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