Top 101 Graduation Quotes

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With graduation coming up, you might be wondering what you will be doing with your life. With that in mind, check out the top 101 graduation quotes to help inspire you.

#101 – 90. Graduation Quotes

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

100. “Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.” —C. Everett Koop

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

98. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” —Frank A. Clark

97. “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” —John Wooden

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

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

94. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” —Thomas Jefferson

93. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Edison

92. “Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” —Steve Jobs

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

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

#89 – 80. Graduation Quotes

89. “Men are what their mothers made them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

85. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” —Leonardo da Vinci

84. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” —Confucius

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

82. “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” —Vince Lombardi

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

80. “The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become.” —DeSeaux

#79 – 70. Graduation Quotes

79. “God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.” —Max Lucado

78. “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” —Harry S. Truman

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

76. “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

75. “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” —Michelle Obama

74. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle

73. “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

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

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

70. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” —Bob Marley

#69 – 60. Graduation Quotes

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

68. “There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” —Christopher Morley

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

66. “You educate a man, you educate a man, You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” —Brigham Young

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

64. “Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers

63. “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

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

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

60. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.” —Joe Girard

#59 – 50. Graduation Quotes

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

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

57. “In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.” —Kristian Kan

56. “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” —Francois Rabelais

55. “When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.” —Steve Maraboli

54. “Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.” —Clementine Paddleford

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

52. “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

51. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” —Alexander Graham Bell

50. “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

#49 – 40. Graduation Quotes

49. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” —Henry Ford

48. To 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

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

46. “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

45. “Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art.” —Neil Gaiman

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

43. “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 your destiny.” —Lao-Tze

42. “In this life we cannot do greatTH things. We can only do small things with great love.” —Mother Teresa

41. “You can never plan the future by the past.” —Edmund Burke

40. “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” —Betty Reese

#39 – 30. Graduation Quotes

39. “Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” —Roger Babson

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

37. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”—Charles Schulz

36. “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

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

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

33. “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

32. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X

31. “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” —Hodding Carter, Jr.

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

#29 – 20. Graduation Quotes

29. “You must continue to dream the wild dream that you dreamed when you were young.” —Mike Tomlin

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

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

26. “Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for great things.” —Josh Hinds

25. “You have to dance a little bit before you step out into the world each day, because it changes the way you walk.” —Sandra Bullock

24. “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

23. “You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you, and you already have.” —Meryl Streep

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

21. “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

20. “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 can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.” —Arie Pencovici

#19 – 10. Graduation Quotes

19. “A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.” —Richard L. Evans

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

17. “From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.” —Toni Morrison

16. “You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.” —Tyra Banks

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

14. “You start to live when you commit to a cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.” —Lailah Gifty Akita

13. “The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be alone with the sky, nature and God. For only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity.” —Anne Frank

12. “The best protection any woman can have is courage.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” —Maya Angelou

10. “And though she be but little, she is fierce.” —Shakespeare

#9 – 1. Graduation Quotes

9. “So, I say to you, forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you.” —Oprah Winfrey

8. “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

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

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

5. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar

4. “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” —Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

3. “Follow your fear.” —Tina Fey

2. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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