Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises.' Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

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.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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.

[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.

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.

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'

The tassel's worth the hassle!

Put your future in good hands - your own.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

The future lies before you Like a field of driven snow, Be careful how you tread it, For every step will show.

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.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.