Lisa’s Generation Relations Blog

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The following is a guest post courtesy of AccreditedOnlineColleges.com. It’s a fun read filled with quick tips and quotes from (mostly) famous people about how to succeed in life after graduating from college. So for all your Gen Y/Millennial students, check it out…

Below you’ll find 49 out of 100 of the tips and quotes, but click here to read all 100!

Here’s the article:

Emerging into the real world after graduation can be a time of great excitement but also one of great trepidation. Here are some quotes that can help offer some sage advice, insight and guidance to make your transition from college to the working world a little less scary.

On Graduation

In these quotes, great thinkers, politicians and businesspeople speak on what graduation means to them.

1. Orrin Hatch:There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
2. Arie Pencovici: 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.
3. Adlai Stevenson: When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
4. Tom Brokaw: 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.
5. Author Unknown: The future lies before you, Like a field of driven snow, Be careful how you tread it, For every step will show.
6. Newton D. Baker: The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
7. Dr. Seuss: 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.
8. Carly Fiorina: The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
9. Oscar Wilde: Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
10. e.e. cummings: It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
11. Catherine Pulsifer: Graduation is a time of completion, of finishing, of an ending, however, it is also a time of celebration of achievement and a beginning for the new graduate.
12. Arie Pencovici: 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.

On Education

These quotes promote the virtues of education.

1. Louis L’Amour: The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
2. Mahatma Gandhi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
3. John Updike: You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
4. Nelson Mandela: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
5. Aristotle: The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.
6. Will Durant: Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
7. Theodore Roosevelt: 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.
8. Jean Piaget: The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
9. Andre Gide: The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
10. John Dewey: The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
11. Galileo Galilei: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
12. William Butler Yeats: Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.

Inspiration

These quotes will inspire you to achieve in your life after graduation.

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson:Hitch your wagon to a star.
2. Confucius:Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
5. Mark Twain: 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.
6. Robert Louis Stevenson: Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
7. Terri Guillemets: There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you – just reach deep into yourself!
8. Marianne Williamson: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
9. Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
10. Henry David Thoreau: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
11. Arthur C. Clarke: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
12. William Arthur Ward: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Motivation

No matter what you want to do in life, these quotes will motivate you to get it done.

1. David Lloyd George: Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
2. Fred Dehner: The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
3. Henry Ford: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
4. Ralph Marston: Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
5. Arnold Palmer: The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Dream no small dreams for they have the power to move the hearts of men.
7. Carl Sandberg: Nothing happens unless it is first a dream.
8. Ralph Waldo Emerson: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’
9. Robert Frost: The best way out is always through.
10. Samuel Johnson: Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
11. Publius Terence: Fortune favors the brave.
12. Theodore Roosevelt: Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
13. Helen Keller: One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

Congrads to all of you students and cheers to your future success!

Lisa