“Upon the subject of education, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”
Abraham Lincoln
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Graduation Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · GRADUATION
Graduation Quotes
Read the best graduation quotes on learning, new beginnings and the road ahead from Vivekananda, Thiruvalluvar, Frost, Gibran, the Gita and more. Perfect for cards and speeches.
“Do not neglect learning and teaching.”
The Upanishads
Lifelong LearningDuty
“The learning man in one birth gains, through seven births its fruits remain.”
Thiruvalluvar
KnowledgeLegacy
“He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent.”
Lao Tzu
Self KnowledgeWisdom
“Perform your duty, for action is better than inaction.”
The Bhagavad Gita
ActionDuty
“Their joy is joy of all the world, they see; thus more the learners learn the more their joy will be.”
Thiruvalluvar
JoyLearning
“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
Benjamin Disraeli
EducationNation
“Whatever is given should be given with faith, with joy, with modesty.”
The Upanishads
GenerosityCharacter
“Learning is excellence of wealth that none destroy; to man nought else affords reality of joy.”
Thiruvalluvar
KnowledgeWealth
“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.”
Plutarch
EducationCuriosity
“The blockheads, too, may men of worth appear, if they can keep from speaking where the learned hear!”
Thiruvalluvar
FunnyWisdom
“Learn the truth by approaching a teacher with humble reverence, by sincere inquiry and by service.”
The Bhagavad Gita
TeachersHumility
“Character is power.”
Booker T. Washington
CharacterShort Quotes
“Wealth of wealth is wealth acquired by ear attent; wealth mid all wealth supremely excellent.”
Thiruvalluvar
ListeningLearning
“Never swerve from truth. Never swerve from duty.”
The Upanishads
TruthDuty
“Let each man good things learn, e'en as he may; good learnt shall bring him excellent increase alway.”
Thiruvalluvar
LearningGrowth
“Knowledge is a person's crowning beauty and a treasure kept safe within.”
Bhartrihari
KnowledgeBeauty
“Think, and then act; it is folly to say, 'We will begin, and then we will think.'”
Thiruvalluvar
PlanningWisdom
“Two kinds of knowledge must be known, the higher and the lower.”
The Upanishads
KnowledgeWisdom
“Good fortune asks the way, and goes to him whose energy no failure knows.”
Thiruvalluvar
PerseveranceSuccess
“The mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act.”
Marcus Aurelius
ObstaclesResilience
“Say not, 'Tis hard', in weak, desponding hour, for strenuous effort gives prevailing power.”
Thiruvalluvar
EffortMotivation
“Though fate-ordained the work's accomplishment should fail, assiduous labour brings its wage.”
Thiruvalluvar
Hard WorkReward
“Who strive with undismayed, unfaltering mind, at length shall leave opposing fate behind.”
Thiruvalluvar
DeterminationSuccess
“Whate'er men think, even as they think, may men obtain, if those who think can steadfastness of will retain.”
Thiruvalluvar
WillpowerDreams