Graduation Quotes On Success, Dreams and Your Future

Graduation is an important rite of passage for so many people, and these famous graduation quotes will help you find the courage to follow your heart and intuition going forward.

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Researchers at Stanford University found that having a sense of purpose and meaning in life can positively affect well-being, including increased resilience, improved physical health, and reduced stress. 

This suggests that graduation quotes encouraging individuals to pursue their dreams and find meaning in their lives may be particularly valuable for graduates.

What are the benefits of reading these graduation quotes?

There are many things to do regarding graduation, and these quotes will help you prepare.

You can use them to:

• Come up with a senior quote for the yearbook
• Include them in your graduation announcements
• Use them for a graduation speech

They will motivate you and your classmates to pursue their dreams after graduation.

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Graduation Quotes about the next chapter in your life

A study from the University of California, Berkeley found that experiencing positive emotions, such as optimism and hope, can benefit individuals, including improved health, enhanced creativity, and increased resilience. 

This suggests that graduation quotes that promote positivity, optimism and hope for future graduates as they navigate the challenges and opportunities of post-graduation life.

1. “Success doesn’t rush. The greatest reward is the journey.” – Jeff Moore

2. “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill

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3. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” –Nora Roberts

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4. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

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5. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

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6. “All our dreams can come true… if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

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7. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

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8. “Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.”– Kerry Washington

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9. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi

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10. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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A lovely commencement and the start of a bright future, these graduation quotes will excite you of things to come.

A graduation signifies many things. It indicates progress, growth, and transformation. When you graduate, it means you’re a more mature being who is ready to start a new chapter in life

Graduation is an exciting opportunity to celebrate your accomplishments. It ‘s a time to celebrate all of the hard work you’ve put into your education. So, let these quotes for graduation help you remember what you’ve achieved, as well as give you the courage to pursue future opportunity.

As the school year comes to an end many students and graduates face a time of reflection, celebration, and even confusion.

“What’s next?”

“What should I do?”

“Where do I go from here?”

We hope these motivational graduation quotes will help you become more confident about your dreams and goals, at such an important time in your life!

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Graduation quotes to make you wiser

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that individuals who set goals and develop plans to achieve them are more likely to succeed in their endeavors than those who do not.

This suggests that graduation quotes that encourage graduates to consider their future plans and aspirations may be precious.

11. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” –Steve Jobs

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12. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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13. “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – JK Rowling

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14. “My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you’re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them.” –Ruth Westheimer

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15. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.” – Ella Fitzgerald

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16. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”–John Maxwell

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17. “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”– George Washington Carver

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18. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”– Albert Schweitzer

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19. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston Churchill

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20. “Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.” – Harold B Melchart

Graduation quotes to inspire success

21. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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22. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” – Muhammad Ali

23. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” – Unknown

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

25. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

26. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

27. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve

28. “Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life.” —Frederick W. Robertson
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29. “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

30. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Graduation quotes to inspire you as you enter the real world

31. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

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

33. “You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.”– Michelle Obama

34. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”– Nelson Mandela

35. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle

36. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Helen Keller

37. “Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.” —H Jackson Brown Jr.

38. “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.” – Barack Obama

39. “Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.” – Dick Costolo

40. “It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.”- Jerry Zucker

Graduation quotes to inspire hope for the future

41. “Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it… Err in the direction of kindness.” – GEORGE SAUNDERS

42. “As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.”— Michael Dell

43. “Kid, you’ll move mountains. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so get on your way!”— Dr. Seuss

44. “Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.”— Senator Orrin Hatch

45. “This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.” – MERYL STREEP

46. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.” – Pele

47. “Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know it when you find it.” —Steve Jobs

48. “Don’t make excuses, don’t blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!” – Joel Osteen

49. “The world rewards those who take responsibility for their own success.” – Curt Gerrish

50. “Share your sparkle wherever you are.” – Dodinsky

Graduation quotes to inspire and teach

51. “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” —Henry Peter Brougham

52. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss

53. “Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power.” —Larry Winget

54. “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”– Albert Einstein

55. “There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” —Jennifer Aniston

56. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”– E.E. Cummings

57. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison

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

59. “Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.” – Oprah Winfrey

60. “Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.” – Anna Quindlen

Inspirational graduation quotes to read

61. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
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62. “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”– Jim Carrey

63. “Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey.” —Michael Josephson

64. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”– Helen Keller

65. “When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.” —Adlai E. Stevenson

66. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” —Dr. Seuss

67. “Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.”
– Joss Whedon

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

69. “You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.” – David Foster Wallace

70. “Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.” – Dick Costolo

Graduation quotes to inspire and motivate you

71. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”– Confucius

72. “Life is an improvisation. You have no ideas what’s going to happen next and you are mostly making things up as you go along.”– Stephen Colbert

73. “Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”– William Arthur Ward

74. “My wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to. Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small and that you never need to carry more than you can hold.”– Rascal Flatts

75. “The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.”– Jon Stewart

76. “Showing up is 80 percent of life.”– Woody Allen

77. “A world where men ran half our homes and women ran half our institutions would be just a much better world.” — Sheryl Sandberg

78. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein

79. “The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.” — Edward Koch

80. “When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” — Ellen DeGeneres

Inspirational quotes for graduates to help you look forward to the future

81. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett

82. “Pick your profession like you would your soulmate. Marry the one that sets you on fire.”― Dr. Billy Aslbrooks

83. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

84. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome

85. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

86. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

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87. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford

88. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

89. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso

90. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vidal Sassoon

Famous graduation quotes to help pursue future opportunity

91. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

92. “The will to dare is the strength to act.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

93. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

94. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

95. “If you’re not getting outside of your comfort zone, then you’re not growing.”― Chad E. Foster

96. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb

97. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

98. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal

99. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

100. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ” – Les Brown

Graduation quotes to inspire you along your journey

101. “Always be the first-rate version of yourself, instead of the second-rate version of somebody else.”– Judy Garland

102. “It’s always a good move to listen to that inner voice…if it doesn’t lead to a crime.”– Lisa Kudrow

103. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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104. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah

105. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” – Kim Garst

106. “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

107. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

108. “I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” – Martha Stewart

109. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

110. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

Graduation quotes that are inspirational

111. “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

112. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

113. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

114. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder

115. “Courage is one step ahead of fear.” – Coleman Young

116. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” –Napoleon Hill

117. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” – J.M. Barrie

118. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa

119. “Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar

120. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey

121. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

122. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

123. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

124. “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.” – Bette Davis

125. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

Graduation quotes that will inspire you to achieve your future dreams

126. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stow

127. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

128. “Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” —Kevin Ngo

129. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

130. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

131. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

132. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” —Sam Levenson

133. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

134. “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o

135. “The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
– Tom Bradley

Graduation quotes to inspire and motivate you

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

137. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson

138. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir

139. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun

140. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps

141. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
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142. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison

143. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

144. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

145. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty

Graduation quotes to encourage you

146. “What is considered impossible is someone else’s opinion. What is possible is my decision.”― Idowu Koyenikan

147. “I have lots of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.” – Oprah Winfrey

148. “When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.”― Suzy Kassem

149. “Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” – John Wooden

150 .“Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.”― Udai Yadla

151. “You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” – Charles Buxton

152. “Life is a teacher. We are the student.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

153. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told.” – Alan Keightley

154. “It is not speed that matters, it’s persistence.”― Abhijit Naskar

155. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” – Venus Williams

Graduation quotes to expand your mind

156. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

157. “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

158. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha

159. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

160. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” – Kahlil Gibran

161. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb

162. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

163. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch

164. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi

165. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” –Leonardo da Vinci

Graduation quotes to make you think in new ways

166. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

167. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Christopher Columbus

168. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani

169. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” –Mark Twain

170. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier

171. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” –Aristotle

172. “Look in the mirror. That’s your competition.” – John Assaraf

173. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” –Booker T. Washington

174. “With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey

175. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” –Roger Staubach

Graduation quotes to boost your motivation

176. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington

177. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” –Jim Rohn

178. “As it turned out, spite was one hell of a motivator.”― Kayla Krantz

179. “The best revenge is massive success.” –Frank Sinatra

180. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

181. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius

182. “The first and greatest victory is to conquer self.” – Plato

183. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

184. “We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Barbara De Angelis

185. “You become what you believe.” –Oprah Winfrey

Graduation quotes that will inspire you to fight for your dreams

186. “Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”- Roger Babson

187. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” –Gurbaksh Chahal

188. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it.” – Kim Garst

189. “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

190. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

191. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

192. “Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great?” – Jimmy J

193. “Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.” – Mattie Stepanek

194. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

195. “The past gave us experience and made us wiser so that we can create a beautiful and brighter future.” ― Debasish Mridha

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196. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” –Mark Twain

197. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

198. “Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.” – Kelly Kim

199. “Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

200. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

201. “I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” – Thomas Jefferson

202. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein

203. “The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.” – Bill Clinton

204. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

205. “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.”― Leonard I. Sweet

More Graduation quotes and sayings

206. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron

207. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”– Les Brown

208. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

209. “It may be that those who do most, dream most.”– Stephen Butler Leacock

210. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde

211. ”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”– Richard Branson

212. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

213. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

214. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

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

Graduation Quotes That Will Make You Emotional

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

217. “Whatever you choose for a career path, remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.” – Chadwick Boseman

218. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

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

220. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

221. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

222. “We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” – Carol Burnett

223. “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

224. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

225. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

226. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Graduation quotes that encourage you to live the life you want

227. “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.” — Nora Ephron

228. “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.” — Michelle Obama

229. “Understand that one day you will have the power to make a difference, so use it well.” — Mindy Kaling

230. “It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” — George Burns

231. “Fight for what makes you optimistic about the world. Find it, insist on it, dig into it, go after it.” — Jennifer Garner

232. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” — Taylor Swift

233. “That clock you hear is the sound of your own heart. Sink your teeth into this life, and don’t get let go.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda

234. “I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.” — Ryan Gosling

235. “You can’t do it alone. Be open to collaboration. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you. Spend a lot of time with them and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler

236. “You cannot dream of becoming something you do not know about. You have to learn to dream big. Education exposes you to what the world has to offer, to the possibilities open to you.” — Sonia Sotomayor

Graduation quotes to inspire you to chase your goals

237. “Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.” — Ed Helms

238. “If you’re willing to stand for what you believe in . . . you won’t need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.” — Whoopi Goldberg

239. “Follow your arrow, wherever it points.”— Kacey Musgrave

240. “Nobody likes to fail, but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.” — Ben Bernanke

242. “Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm S. Forbes

243. “The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.” — Maya Angelou

244. “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” — Helen Keller

245. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

246. “I will encourage you not to just make a living, but to live to make something.” — Wesley Chan

Graduation quotes about following your dreams

247. “Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.” – Steven Conrad

248. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”– Pamela Vaull Starr

249. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

250. “Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” – Marcia Wieder

251. “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” – John Updike

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

253. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

254. “It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting.”
– Paulo Coelho

255. “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada

256. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” —W. Clement Stone

Graduation congratulations quotes

257. “Graduation day is finally here, your dreams you did pursue. All your hard work has paid off, we are so very proud of you.” – Catherine Pulsifer

258. “Congratulations! today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away.” – Dr. Seuss

259. “Sending you a day full of sunshine, a heaven filled with rainbows, and a pocket full of dreams. May the future ahead of you be as wonderful as you are.” – Judith Wibberley

260. “The world awaits all that you have to offer, keep achieving, keep accomplishing, but never forget to keep being the person you are today – kind, caring and compassionate.” – Catherine Pulsifer

261. “You did it, even when you didn’t feel like studying – you did it. Congratulations!” – Kate Summers

262. “Offering our best wishes on your graduation and looking forward to what God has planned for your future.” – Byron Pulsifer

263. “You overcame every test. Done tons of homework. For all those years. Congratulations, you made it.” – Danielle Duckery

264. “Walk down these crowded streets with a smile on your face. Be thankful you get to walk so close to other humans. It’s a privilege.” – Zadie Smith

265. “As a graduate, you have worked long and hard, usually for many years, and deserve the recognition you are receiving.” – Jay Remer

266. “I hope you’ll understand the power you have to change our lives. Change the world.” – Ronan Farrow

Short graduation quotes

267. “Graduates, we need you to save the world.” – Pierce Brosnan

268. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou

269. “Do what you have to do resolutely, with all your heart.” – Buddha

270. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

271. “Be allergic to failure and addicted to success.” – Daniel Roberts

272. “What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.” – Ralph Sockman

273. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

274. “The new definition of freedom today is self-determination.” – John Hope Bryant

275. “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” – Ronnie Lott

276. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” – Horace Mann

Graduation Quotes That Learning is a Continuous Process

277. “My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.” ― Jim Evans

278. “I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.” ― Will McDonough

279. “I’ve learned that I can pretty much do anything I’ve wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.” ― Jamie Hyneman

280. “I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen.” ― Junior Seau

281. “Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.” ― Howard Schultz

282. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” ― Will Durant

283. “You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.” ― Michael Dell

284. “Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” ― Sugar Ray Leonard

285. “A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.” ― Lee Pace

286. “My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.” ― Kenneth G. Wilson

Graduation Quotes To Make You Proud of Yourself

287. “Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.” ― John Green

288. “For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life, the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 a.m. class is far too early.” ― Alexa von Tobel

289. “When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now.’” ― Francis Ford Coppola

290. “A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.” ― Robert Orben

291. “At graduation, you get to wear a cap and gown, but it’s a good idea to also wear something underneath it.” ― Greg Tamblyn

292. “The learning that starts in school and used to end at graduation is now a vital and continual proactive process.” ― Victor Hayek

293. “Now that you’ve graduated, just remember, bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.” ― Melanie White

294. “The first of many graduations of life. From elementary school to senior school, each one holds successes for you to enjoy.” ― Catherine Pulsifer

295. “Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.” ― Bruce Eric Kaplan

296. “Students get diplomas when they graduate from high school, but I think they should also get diplomas for simply surviving the teen years.” ― Melanie Willard

Graduation Quotes To Motivate Students

297. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” — William Arthur Ward

298. “Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education; because that would mean we had stopped growing.” — Julia H. Gulliver

299. “I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.” — Maya Angelou

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

301. “Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.” — Oprah Winfrey

302. “Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single day until you reach your goal.” — Ava DuVernay

303. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” — Michelle Obama

304. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take experience first; the cash will come later.” — Harold Geneen

305. “Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.” — Natasha Bedingfield

306. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” — Salvador Dali

Graduation Quotes To Encourage You About The Future

307. “You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

308. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou

309. “You’re not a failure if you don’t make it. You’re a success because you tried.” — Susan Jeffers

310. “Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day.” — Premier Brian Gallant

311. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” — Abraham Lincoln

312. “As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.” — Donald Trump

313. “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.” — Dr. John G. Hibben

314. “We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.” — Bradley Whitford

315. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” — Conan O’Brien

316. “Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it.” — Mary Lou Retton

Graduation Quotes To Celebrate Your Accomplishments

317. “No one wants to think at graduation! It’s graduation, the time when we celebrate being done with thinking.” ― Haley Dunphy

318. “Graduation is not a signal that one is prepared to practice for a career lifetime. It’s simply a license to hit the turf running and to keep learning.” ― Betsy Plank

319. “Here’s to the graduate. Although your life in school is now complete, the school of life is just beginning!” ― Jennifer Rahel Conover

320. “Graduation day—the high point of college. The commencement speech—the low point of graduation day.” ― Robert Novak

321. “My dear, terrified graduates, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives.” ― Lin-Manuel Miranda

322. “Graduation is a time of completion, of finishing, of an ending, however, it is also a time of celebration of achievement and a beginning for you.” ― Catherine Pulsifer

323. “The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.” ― Edward Abbey

324. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” ― Wendy Wasserstein

325. “Successful graduates from the school of life thrive on failed attempts.” ― Kamil Ali

326. “I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.” ― Joe Theismann

Graduation Quotes to Embrace New Opportunities

327. “Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.” ― Louisa May Alcott

328. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” ― John Wooden

329. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― William Butler Yeats

330. “Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.” ― T. H. White

331. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ― John Wooden

332. “The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.” ― Tennessee Williams

333. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” ― Earl Nightingale

334. “I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do.” ― Parker Stevenson

335. “I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.” ― Peter Gallagher

336. “Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.” ― Clare Oliver

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