Need a graduation quote for a college or high school graduation speech, graduation party, or graduation ceremony? Here is an eclectic mix of fun and inspiration quotations to help you out.

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak. --Paul Wellstone

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

The future depends upon what we do in the present. --Mahatma Gandhi

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. --Susan B. Anthony

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.---Nelson Mandela

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -- Robert Frost

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

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

I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. -- Sir Winston Churchill

People will frighten you about a graduation. They use words you don't hear often. 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.--Bill Cosby

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. --Barbara Bush

There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live. -- John Adams

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry. --Gloria Steinem

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have become old. --Bill Clinton

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

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.--Maya Angelou

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

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. --Judy Garland

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --Aristotle

Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda

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