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Words of Wisdom on GraduationIn developing our seminars and keynote presentations, we are fortunate to run across many words of wisdom. If you need a refreshing thought, idea, slogan, or profound nugget for an upcoming meeting, presentation, or lunch room bulletin board, take a look at the following words of wisdom on graduation. Don't miss our other categories of Words of Wisdom. 
Random Thoughts on GraduationGraduation is only a concept. In real life every day you
graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your
life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement
exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. The tassel's worth the hassle! The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match.
Each one of you is a fuse. All that stands between the graduate and the top of the
ladder is the ladder. You are educated. Your certification is in your degree.
You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to
think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. 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. The future lies before you Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education
still continues. Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some
honors! It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning
to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where
there is no path and leave a trail. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow
is uneducated the day after. You have brains in your head. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines,
sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover. Of course, there's a lot of knowledge in universities:
the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge
sort of accumulates. If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground,
then the university has failed you. The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford.
And I was afraid the day I walked out. The trouble with learning from experience is that you
never graduate. The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline
of wonder. The one real object of education is to have a man in the
condition of continually asking questions. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose
shade you do not expect to sit. |
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