famous graduation sayings & quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear

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Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.
~Author : Friedrich von Schelling Famous Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Nice Quotes

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
~Author : Bruce Lee Quotation from the book The Art of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee Great Sayings

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Guards Guards Meaningful Sayings

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
~Author : J A Spender Wise Quotes

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
~Author : Sir Thomas Beecham Famous Quotes

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Inspirational Sayings

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
~Author : Jewish Proverb Nice Quotes

To the pure, all things are pure.
~Author : Arabic Proverb Great Sayings

Let the punishment match the offense.
~Author : Cicero De Legibus Meaningful Sayings

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Wise Quotes

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute

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Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
~Author : Unknown Famous Quotes

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
~Author : Katharine Graham Inspirational Sayings

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
~Author : Real Live Preacher Nice Quotes

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
~Author : Dean Koontz Great Sayings

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
~Author : Swami Brahnmananda Meaningful Sayings

Adelle Davis Meaningful Sayings

2008-10-19T02:48:00.003-07:00

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
~Author : Adelle Davis Meaningful Sayings

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Wise Quotes

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
~Author : Walt Whitman Motivational Sayings

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
~Author : Napoleon Famous Quotes

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.
~Author : John Kennedy Autobiography of malcolm x Inspirational Sayings

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
~Author : Paul Beatty Nice Quotes

Elie Wiesel Nice Quotes

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God made man because He loves stories.
~Author : Elie Wiesel Nice Quotes

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
~Author : Frank Herbert Great Sayings

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
~Author : J Michael Straczynski Meaningful Sayings

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
~Author : Bhagavad Gita Wise Quotes

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
~Author : Will Rogers Motivational Sayings

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.
~Author : Henri Estienne Famous Quotes

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
~Author : Plato Inspirational Sayings

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
~Author : Norman O Brown Nice Quotes

Publilius Syrus Famous Quotes

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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Famous Quotes

The journey is the reward.
~Author : Taoist Saying Inspirational Sayings

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
~Author : Mark Twain Nice Quotes

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.
~Author : Seneca Great Sayings

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.
Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
~Author : Samuel Hazo Meaningful Sayings

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situatioin where there is nothing left to do but pray.
~Author : Victoria Damon Wise Quotes

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
~Author : Saint Augustine Motivational Sayings

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
~Author : William Hazlitt Famous Quotes

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson New England Reformers 1844 Wise Quotes

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
~Author : William Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing Act 1 scene 1 Motivational Sayings

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
~Author : Jane Austen Famous Quotes

True philosophy invents nothing it merely establishes and describes what is.
~Author : Victor Cousin Inspirational Sayings

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
~Author : Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Nice Quotes

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
~Author : Julius Caesar Great Sayings

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.
~Author : Dorothy DeBolt Meaningful Sayings

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
~Author : George Washington Inspirational Sayings

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
~Author : Robert Louis Stephenson Nice Quotes

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Great Sayings

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
~Author : William Jr Wrigley Meaningful Sayings

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Wise Quotes

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
~Author : William Shakespeare Motivational Sayings

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Author : Herm Albright Famous Quotes

It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better.
~Author : Unknown Inspirational Sayings

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology

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What other people think about me is not my business.
~Author : Michael J Fox Lucky Man a memoir Famous Quotes

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
~Author : Abbie Hoffman Inspirational Sayings

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
~Author : Unknown Nice Quotes

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
~Author : Isaac Watts Great Sayings

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.
~Author : Steffen Francisco Meaningful Sayings

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
~Author : Adolph Hitler Mein Kampf Wise Quotes

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.
~Author : Mother Theresa Motivational Sayings

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
~Author : Joseph Addison Famous Quotes

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
~Author : Ludwig van Beethoven Nice Quotes

Charity begins at home.
~Author : Terence Andria Great Sayings

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Meaningful Sayings

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Wise Quotes

Some people walk in the rain? others just get wet?
~Author : Roger Miller Motivational Sayings

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
~Author : Plato Famous Quotes

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
~Author : Margaret Cho Inspirational Sayings

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Nice Quotes

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~Author : Ayn Rand Famous Quotes

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
~Author : Daniel J Boorstin Inspirational Sayings

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
~Author : Homer Nice Quotes

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
~Author : Horace Great Sayings

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
~Author : Euripides The Bacchae circa 407 BC Meaningful Sayings

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
~Author : Rita Mae Brown Wise Quotes

Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
~Author : Carl Schurz Motivational Sayings

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
~Author : Albert Schweitzer Famous Quotes

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
~Author : Phillip Earl Stanhope Inspirational Sayings

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
~Author : Edward Abbey Nice Quotes

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~Author : Nadine Gordimer Great Sayings

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
~Author : Unknown Meaningful Sayings

Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.
~Author : David Layson Wise Quotes

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
~Author : Donald H Rumsfeld Motivational Sayings

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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Funny how the new things are the old things.
~Author : Rudyard Kipling With the Night Mail 1909 Wise Quotes

The shortest answer is doing.
~Author : English Proverb Motivational Sayings

There's two possible outcomes if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
~Author : Enrico Fermi Famous Quotes

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Inspirational Sayings

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
~Author : Gertrude Stein Nice Quotes

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
~Author : Denis Watley Great Sayings

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
~Author : Carl Sandburg Meaningful Sayings

The road to true love never did run smooth.
~Author : Shakespeare Wise Quotes

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Motivational Sayings

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
~Author : Franz Kafka Famous Quotes

Economics is war pursued by other means.
~Author : Raymond F DeVoe Jr Inspirational Sayings

You did touch me but didn't feel my pain.
~Author : B J Gupta Nice Quotes

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
~Author : Herman Melville Great Sayings

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
~Author : H L Mencken Famous Quotes

When you're going up the stairs and you take a step, kick the other leg up high behind you to keep people from following too close.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Inspirational Sayings

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
~Author : Walt Whitman Nice Quotes

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Great Sayings

Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.
~Author : Mark Twain Meaningful Sayings

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~Author : Henri Nouwen Out of Solitude Wise Quotes

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
~Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer Motivational Sayings

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.
~Author : Steven Wright I Have a Pony Famous Quotes

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
~Author : Ellen Glasgow Inspirational Sayings

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
~Author : Elbert Hubbard Nice Quotes

The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Great Sayings

Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.
~Author : A Canticle for Leibowitz Meaningful Sayings

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.

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I am sure the grapes are sour.
~Author : Aesop The Fox and the Grapes Great Sayings

The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
~Author : Frederick Buechner Meaningful Sayings

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.
~Author : Sister Mary Lauretta Wise Quotes

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
~Author : James Allen Motivational Sayings

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
~Author : Robert Anthony Famous Quotes

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
~Author : Alexandre Dumas Inspirational Sayings

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
~Author : Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Nice Quotes

One picture is worth a thousand words.
~Author : Fred R Barnard Great Sayings

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
~Author : Sir Francis Bacon Of Seditions and Troubles Nice Quotes

...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
~Author : George Orwell Great Sayings

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
~Author : Robert Frost The Death of a Hired Man Meaningful Sayings

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
~Author : Keller Wise Quotes

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
~Author : Jalal udDin Rumi Motivational Sayings

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
~Author : Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
~Author : Real Live Preacher RealLivePreachercom Weblog December 16 2002 Inspirational Sayings

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
~Author : Woody Allen Nice Quotes

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

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But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
~Author : R E Phillips Famous Quotes

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
~Author : Bill Cosby Inspirational Sayings

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
~Author : Ovid Nice Quotes

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying
~Author : Jalal udDin Rumi Great Sayings

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Meaningful Sayings

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
~Author : Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Wise Quotes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
~Author : Thomas Huxley Motivational Sayings

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
~Author : Peter Ustinov Famous Quotes