100 Best Quotes for Newly Graduated Seniors to Celebrate and Inspire the Future

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer

“Be bold, be courageous, be your best.” — Gabrielle Giffords

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Dream big. Work hard. Stay humble.”

“The best is yet to come.”

“Make your next move your best move.”

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe

“Adventure awaits.”

“This is only the beginning.”

“You did it!”

“Next stop: greatness.”

“Stay curious.”

“Class dismissed!”

“Go out into the world and do well. But more importantly, go out into the world and do good.” — Minor Myers Jr.

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins

“Start each day believing in your dreams.”

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match.” — Edward Koch

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill

“You were made for amazing things.”

“Graduation is not the end—it’s the beginning.”

“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.” — John F. Kennedy

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“Take the risk, make the leap, trust your wings.”

“I graduated. So now I’m like smart and stuff.”

“I spent 113,880 hours of my life for a piece of paper and a handshake.”

“They say education is the key to success. I guess I’m locked out until further notice.”

“Some graduate with honors, I am just honored to graduate.”

“Cap. Gown. It’s going down.”

“My degree now makes me qualified to Google things for other people.”

“So… when do we start getting paid?”

“Keep calm and pretend this was part of the plan.”

“I’m 100% certain that I am 0% sure of what I’m going to do.”

“I hope my degree looks good on the wall because that’s where it’s going.”

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” — Pope John Paul II

“High school is not the end—it’s the launching pad.”

“This isn’t goodbye, it’s just see you later.”

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali

“What feels like the end is often the beginning.”

“You’re off to great places! Today is your day!” — Dr. Seuss

“Life is like high school. Just with bills.”

“Class of [Year]—we made history!”

“Dear future: bring snacks.”

“From halls to highways. Let’s go.”

“Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go.” — Michael Josephson

“College is the best four years you can’t explain.”

“Real world, here we come.”

“Degrees are proof of effort. But your character is your real résumé.”

“You're now qualified to change the world—and fix the Wi-Fi.”

“Here’s to adulting, adventure, and maybe grad school.”

“What’s next? Everything.”

“College gave us memories. Now go make a legacy.”

“We came. We learned. We graduated. Barely.”

“A diploma is just a fancy receipt for all those late nights.”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it.” — The Lion King

“Even miracles take a little time.” — Cinderella

“To infinity and beyond!” — Toy Story

“It’s not our abilities that show what we truly are. It’s our choices.” — Harry Potter

“Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.” — 10 Things I Hate About You

“You have to do everything you can… and if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.” — Silver Linings Playbook

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” — Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“Adventure is out there!” — Up

“It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” — Indiana Jones

“Go forth and set the world on fire.” — St. Ignatius of Loyola

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” — Victor Hugo

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” — Emily Dickinson

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity.” — Charlotte Brontë

“You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall

“Go, then. There are other worlds than these.” — Stephen King

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Believe in yourself and all that you are.” — Christian D. Larson

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world throws at you.” — Brian Tracy

“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso

“This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.”

“You’ve got magic in your mind and purpose in your heart.”

“Your future is created by what you do today—not tomorrow.”

“Don’t just graduate—create.”

“So here’s to the nights we’ll never forget, with the friends we’ll always remember.”

“We didn’t come this far, just to come this far.”

“Graduation is a beginning disguised as an ending.”

“Let’s not wait for opportunity—let’s create it.”

“We’re not done learning, we’re just getting started.”

“This is not goodbye. This is next.”

“Thank you to the people who helped us become who we are today.”

“We’re walking across this stage, into the rest of our story.”

“We made it. Now let’s go make something of it.”

“Caps off to the future—it’s ours now.”