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Whether you need a witty saying for a yearbook, a quote for a graduation speech, or words to express yourself in a card to a new graduate, finding just the right thing to say can be difficult.

Commencement exercises are a time for wisdom and humor. When the mix is just right there suddenly emerges quotes to live by:

• "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." ~ Tom Brokaw

• "Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."  ~e.e. cummings

And even:

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.

Oh!, The Places You'll Go ~ Dr. Seuss

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Famous quotes on GRADUATION - Contemporary quotes mixed with ancient wisdom combine for a site that will be a place you'll return to for quotes long after the ceremonies are over.

Graduation Quotes - Some sentiments to share on cards or in commencement speeches..."The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future." - Plato

Great Graduation Quotes - More than three dozen pieces of commencement thoughts are gathered on this site. Some are repeated on other sites, but many were only found here.

Quotations for Graduation & Advice for Graduates - To understand a little of greatness, listen to the words of people who have had great success - and understand that they truly believe, and live by, what others sneer at as naiveté...

Favorite Graduation Quotes - In the two top ten lists at this site you'll find some pearls of wit and wisdom from graduation speeches of the past.

Graduation Poems for Free - A huge collection to use in speeches, greetings or just to express a favorite sentiment to your own special new grad.

Graduation Speeches in the Yahoo! Directory - Links to some of the best graduation speeches given in the recent past by famous politicians, journalists and entertainers.

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