Purloined advice for the graduate

Read and learn, grads, lest you wind up like your parents.

•Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. — Gary Bolding

•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. — Theodore Roosevelt

•The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. — Newton D. Bake

•Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value. — Albert Einstein

•Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. — Art Linkletter

•Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. — Ralph Marston

•Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. — Henry Ford

•Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle

•Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George

•You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. — John Wooden

•The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. — Nelson Henderson

•An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. — Benjamin Franklin

•What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

•Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson

•If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you. — Unknown

•Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise. — Ted Turner (from his father)

•It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — e.e. cummings

•It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. — Edmund Hillary

•If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! — Andy McIntyre

•Don’t waste time learning “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade. — James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown Jr.

•Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Robert Babson

Mark Beardsley is editor of The Commerce News. He lives in Commerce.