Looking for inspirational quotes for graduates to share on graduation day?
Whether you’re a graduate or their loved one, this list is the one for you!
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High School Graduation Quotes
Everythings always ending.
But everythings always beginning, too.
-Patrick Ness
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life.
-Frederick W. Robertson
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
-Leonardo da Vinci
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Dont underestimate the power of your dreams.
-Corinna Kong
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Jon Stewart
It is absolutely still possible to make a difference.
-Michelle Obama
Take pride in how far youve come.
Have faith in how far you’ve got the option to go.
But dont forget to enjoy the journey.
-Michael Josephson
Kid, youll move mountains!
-William Arthur Ward
The only direction your bar should move is up.
Raise it, and dont ever question yourself or your standards.
-Ciarra Wagner
College Graduation Quotes
You are educated.
Your certification is in your degree.
You may think of it as the ticket to the good life.
Let me ask you to think of an alternative.
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
-Tom Brokaw
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
-Alfred Mercier
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.
-Plato
Life is my college.
May I graduate well and earn some honors!
-Luisa May Alcott
Education is the most powerful weapon which you could use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela
The fireworks begin today.
Each diploma is a lighted match; each one of you is a fuse.
-J. K. Rowling
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
-Malcolm X
Graduation is only a concept.
In real life, every day you graduate.
Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life.
If you could grasp that, youll make a difference.
-Arie Pencovici
Dont just get involved.
Fight for your seat at the table.
Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
-Barack Obama
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Whats meant to be doesnt happen on its own.
Sometimes you have to fight like hell for it.
-Sarah Brown
As you set off into the world, dont be afraid to question your leaders.
-Lin-Manuel Miranda
Your families are extremely proud of you.
You cant imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing.
This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
-Gary Bolding
I have not failed.
Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work.
-Thomas Edison
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde
To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say well done.
And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
-Betty Reese
The elevator to success is out of order.
Youll have to use the stairs .
one step at a time.
-Joe Girard
If you arent fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
-Vince Lombardi
Dont worry about the world coming to an end today.
It is already tomorrow in Australia.
-Charles Schulz
Nothing is impossible.
The word itself says Im possible!'
-Audrey Hepburn
Inspirational Graduation Quotes About Post-Grad Life
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
-Oprah Winfrey
Life is an improvisation.
-George Saunders
You ruin your life by settling.
You settle in love because you are unsure of what you want.
You settle in life because you fear change.
-Kirsten Corley
The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?
-Benjamin Franklin
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Dr. Seuss
Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you quit, try.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
-Nora Ephron
You dont go to university so you’re free to punch a clock.
-Tory Burch
At any point in your story, you are free to reimagine the narrative you are living.
-Grace Helbig
Every person you meet knows something you dont; learn from them.
-H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life.
Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
-Arnold Palmer
Dont ever confuse the two, your life and your work.
The second is only part of the first.
-Anna Quindlen
Get busy living or get busy dying.
-Stephen King
Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door.
-Kyle Chandler
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
-Babe Ruth
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
-Anthony Robbins
Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.
Leave the world more interesting for you being here.
-Ellen Degeneres
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes yourdestiny.
-Winnie the Pooh
Dont cry because its over.
Smile because it happened.
When nothing goes right, go left.
-Unknown
Graduation is not the end; its the beginning.
-Senator Orrin Hatch
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Lewis
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A flower cant grow without rain.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you leave here, dont forget why you came.
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
you’ve got the option to steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
-George Bernard Shaw
take a stab at learn something about everything and everything about something.
-T. H. Huxley
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-E. E. Cummings
All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-Bobby Kennedy
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-Francis Bacon
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
-Tony Robbins
I will encourage you not to just make a living, but to make something.
-Wesley Chan
The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
Maya Angelou
-Kacey Musgraves
The road to success is always under construction.
-Lily Tomlin
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. Milne
No matter where youre from, your dreams are valid.
-Toni Morrison
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
-Robin Williams
If you might believe it, the mind can achieve it.
-Ronnie Lott
Success doesnt rush.
The greatest reward is the journey!
-Jeff Moore
Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
-Art Linkletter
Short Positive Quotes to Put on Grad Caps
-Tina Fey
There is no script.
Soak it all in.
-Dick Costolo
It always seems impossible until its done.
There are no regrets in life.
-Jennifer Aniston
Knowledge is not power.
The implementation of knowledge is power.
-Larry Winget
If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare
The tassels worth the hassle.
-Anonymous
Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace.
Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.
-Janice Thompson
Be where your feet are.
Dream big and dare to fail.
-Norman Vaughan
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.
-Maya Angelou
Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.
Bob Marley
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
you’re able to never plan a future by the past.
-Edmund Burke
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-Roger Babson
Dont wait.
The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
