Margaret Heffernan Quotes

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

I'm a beginning, not an end.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

I'd like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I'm sure there is lots more for me to do, because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.

It was not an end, it was a beginging

All we're ever looking for is another open door.

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

We will not know unless we begin.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

There is always a time to move on.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Life for me is about movement.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.