Every year we will honor all our high school & college graduates. It’s nice to recognize their accomplishments. I found some great quotes, including Bible passages, that will help graduates and anyone on life’s journey. I hope they are an encouragement to you today.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. (Mark 12:30)
“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular; it is why he does it.” – A. W. Tozer
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, (Colossians 3:23)
“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. (Proverbs 16:3)
“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.” – Charles C. Noble
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – William James
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)
“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)
You are only what you are when no one is looking. – Robert C Edwards
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6)