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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