If you are a public speaker you probably are also an avid reader. As you read, certain combinations of words on the written page or your computer screen will resonate with you. These phrases and sentences will form some of the quotations you will use in your speech.

We have gotten some very positive feedback since we first published graduation speech quotes on this blog. So without further ado here are some more useful graduation speech quotes.

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcom X

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.” – Confuciu

“Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.” – Prophet Mohamma

“We were all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchil

“You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

“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.”  -Theodore Roosevelt

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” –Judy Garland

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ” -Aristotle

“Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda

“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

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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• “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” — Alphonse Karr
• “Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.” — Edward Steichen
• “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” — Larry Lorenzoni
• “There is still no cure for the common birthday.” — John Glenn
• “Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.” — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
• “We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.” — Anonymous
• “A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.” — Anonymous
• “I never forget my wife’s birthday. It’s usually the day after she reminds me about it.”
• “Birthdays are just nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.” – - Anonymous
• “Think of birthdays this way: you’re not getting older, you’re getting wiser.”– Anonymous
• “Inside every older person is a younger person – wondering what the heck happened.” — Cora Harvey Armstrong
• “Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.” — Anonymous
• “I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.” — Harry Hershfield

If you’re still unsure how to write a perfect birthday speech or don’t have the time why not try one of these professionally written, Fill In The Blank Speech Templates.

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• To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action. (Louis Sullivan)
• This education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.(Alexander Pope)
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.(William James)
• Good teaching comes from good people. (Parker Palmer)
• In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort. (Plato)
• Learning is like a jigsaw puzzle. When you first lay the pieces out, it doesn’t make much sense. When you start to connect the pieces, you then begin to see how it all fits together. (Anonymous)
• Education is the journey from cocksure arrogance to thoughtful uncertainty. (Kevin Huenison)
• Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. (Albert Einstein)
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Chinese proverb)
• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde)
• College is about three things: homework fun and sleep … but you can only choose two. (Andy Stern)
• Knowledge is a wild thing,it must be hunted before being tamed. (Anonymous)
• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. (Epictetus)

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