Heartwarming Graduation Wishes and Quotes to Congratulate Grads

Your friend completing his graduation is a commendable achievement, and it’s time that you convey your best wishes and send some quotes that emphasize the importance of being a graduate.

In order to understand the true meaning of a graduation degree, one has to read graduation wishes or quotes. These quotes tell how to use this degree for the welfare of mankind. Graduation wishes are inspiring as they motivate us to follow the right path and use the knowledge for a good cause. These sayings have a profound meaning and have left a lasting impact on the world.

Graduation Wishes and Quotes

~ Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! – Louisa May Alcott

~ Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

~ To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France

~ Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Graduation 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. – Arie Pencovici

~ 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. – Tom Brokaw

~ I hope your dreams take you… to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known. – Anonymous

~ There is a good reason they call these ceremonies’ commencement exercises’ Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. – Orrin Hatch

~ Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course–because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. – Alice Duer Miller

~ Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Teenage girl with arms crossed holding diploma

~ Graduation is a time of completion, of finishing, of an ending, however, it is also a time of celebration of achievement and a beginning for the new graduate. – Catherine Pulsifer

~ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

~ The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. – Anonymous

~ It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts. – Millard Fuller

~ 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

~ A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, ‘I’ve been going for three months.’ I said, ‘How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?’ He said, ‘All of them. – Red Skelton

~ At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. – Paul Freund

~ It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. – Isabel Waxman