Best Graduate Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I never went to school. I was homeschooled my whole life - and I also didn't even graduate.”

“I'm a college graduate.”

“I have school planned out in my mind, and I know it's going to work. My dad wants us to wake up every morning with intent. I know he's going to cry when I graduate.”

“My mother was a proud and capable woman. She was among the first class of college graduates after China's Cultural Revolution, then immigrated to the U.S. by herself.”

“Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.”

“I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.”

“My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.”

“We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.”

“WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians practicing in West Virginia are graduates of the Osteopathic School.”

“I ain't graduate high school.”

“I think Roland read 'Primal Scream' first and then gave it to me. This was, I think, even prior to 'The Graduate' days. We both got heavily into and it offered a lot of questions about how screwed up our home life was.”

“I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.”

“I didn't graduate high school.”

“It started with my mom; she always wanted me to get my degree and graduate.”

“I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.”

“Don't just sit around and wait for it to happen. 'Get Your Roll On.' If you're going to buy some rims, graduate from college, or whatever, get your roll on and make something shake.”

“My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.”

“I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.”

“I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.”

“I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when kids - they graduate high school, and people turn to them and say, 'So what are you going to do with your life?' I thought, 'Well, I like being onstage. I like being an actor.'”

“My career is really, really important, and I love it, but the life highs - like seeing my son graduate - need to me to be more important than the career highs, which are fleeting.”

“I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.”

“As a therapist, I've worked with many high-achieving people who don't feel worthy of their success. Whether it was a recent college graduate who had landed a high-paying job or a mature adult who had just received another promotion, all of these people suffer from impostor syndrome.”

“Getting into graduate school was pure luck.”

“Second City should create a secret handshake, and when you graduate, you have to know it.”

“We have too few college graduates. We also have too few people who are prepared for college.”

“Everyone has relationships. Breakups are hard. Everyone graduates from school.”

“I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.”

“I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.”

“Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.”

“My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.”

“It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.”

“Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.”

“I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.”

“Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.”

“I was the first in my family to graduate college.”

“The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'”

“At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.”

“When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.”

“When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.”

“I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines.”

“All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.”

“What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.”

“I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.”

“I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.”

“Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.”

“I would like to talk to the parents of prospective players and show them that I am an ordained minister and a graduate of UNLV and that the school is a moral place where I would send my own children.”

“I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.”

“All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.”

“The worst thing we can do is graduate kids who aren't prepared for the real world.”

“I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.”

“'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'”

“When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.”

“I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.”

“I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.”

“I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.”

“We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.”

“It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if you are good or not.”

“My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.”

“I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.”

“I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.”

“I was very smart in school. I had straight As and was going to graduate high school at 16 and start college. My dad wanted me to be a lawyer because I was very opinionated.”

“I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.”

“Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.”

“I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn't have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, 'Maybe graduate school?' I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It's very romantic and stimulating.”

“Michigan has such grandiosity. It has all those all-Americans. You can't go anywhere without finding a Michigan graduate.”

“In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.”

“The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.”

“My son was born between my first and year of graduate studies.”

“I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.”

“The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.”

“I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.”

“During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.”

“I went to graduate school and paid good money to get an education that's worth something, but I learned more in the first six months at Wal-Mart than I learned in 5 1/2 years of post-secondary education.”

“When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!”

“I am a Yale Law School graduate.”

“Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.”

“When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.”

“You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.”

“I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.”

“I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It seems almost uncivilized to tell someone writing a novel, 'No, you have to call this a memoir.'”

“I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.”

“Jobs for America's Graduates is all about helping the most vulnerable and underserved youth succeed in school, on the job, and in college. This is not a partisan issue in any way.”

“Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.”

“I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.”

“I didn't graduate from any institution of higher learning.”

“If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.”

“Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.”

“Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.”

“We were kids that didn't have any education. None of our parents were in the music business or even college graduates. We didn't have someone guiding us. We were just uneducated kids from the middle of nowhere that suddenly had a band going around the world.”

“I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.”

“I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.”

“When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.”

“When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.”

“I went to Paramount High School, Mayfair High School, all types of high schools. I'm not a high school graduate, but it's all good.”

“In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.”

“Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.”

“We can't make a kid graduate. We're trying to get a kid graduated in four years, and yet play on the road weeknights, miss a lot of school.”

“I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.”

“I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.”