Graduation Quotations | Page 8

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Very likely the Legislature is going to allow us to implement the Hathaway Scholarship Program, which is just an amazing opportunity. It will allow us to improve test scores and graduation rates. It's going to be an economic development tool as well.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

You can't climb the ladder of success...

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.