I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Graduation
Short graduation quotes
Short lines for a graduation card, a decorated cap, a yearbook entry or the last slide of a speech. Every quote here is 30 words or fewer, from writers such as Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Emerson, Whitman and Lewis Carroll. Most are encouraging, one or two are gently funny. They are all public domain, so you can print them on anything, and each is copied word for word from the original book, with a link to check it.
Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables, 1908 · Chapter XXI: A New Departure in Flavorings
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,You must travel it for yourself.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
This above all: to thine own self be true;And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Things do not change; we change.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world.
L. M. MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables, 1908 · Chapter II: Matthew Cuthbert is Surprised
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If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark TwainThe Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894 · Chapter V: The Twins Thrill Dawson's Landing
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 · Chapter II: The Pool of Tears
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