Quotes About Success

It's always a big accomplishment to graduate from a university.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

When I was in high school at the age of 17 - I graduated from high school in Decatur, Georgia, as valedictorian of my high school - I was very proud of myself.

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

When I graduated from college, I thought that I would probably never be an actor because it seemed like everyone was big by the time they were 20 or not at all.

I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.

I think about my own career, and when I graduated from college, the Internet didn't really exist yet. And so not having a specific plan, being able to be opportunistic at the end, is what enabled me to make some of my best decisions, which is to go to places that were growing but that I didn't plan to have happen.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

My mom was a beautician in her early days, and then my parents decided that one of them needed to go to school in order to build the future. So my mom started going to college when I was in eighth grade, and she graduated when I was a freshman in college.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.

I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

My goal was to have a company off the ground by the time I graduated. But the worst-case scenario was I would have an MBA and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.

I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.

When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

I was going to college on a full scholarship. I graduated summa cum laude. I was always on the dean's list. I was never a kid that started any kind of trouble.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.