100+ Inspiring Graduation Quotes for the Perfect Send-Off

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

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

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

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

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

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

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

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

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – Unknown

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Unknown

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

“Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Unknown

“Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it.” – Unknown

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

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Unknown

“Small progress is still progress.” – Unknown

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Unknown

“The best project you’ll ever work on is you.” – Unknown

“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Steven Wright

“If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.” – Steven Wright

“I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.” – Unknown

“My phone battery lasts longer than my relationships.” – Unknown

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown

“I put my phone on airplane mode, but it’s not flying anywhere.” – Unknown

“I’m not short, I’m concentrated awesome.” – Unknown

“I don’t need therapy, I just need a nap.” – Unknown

“I’m not late. Everyone else is just early.” – Unknown

“I followed my dream, but it ran really fast.” – Unknown

“I’m not clumsy. The floor just hates me, trips me, and laughs.” – Unknown

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.” – Maya Angelou

“Love makes a sweet music with every motion.” – Sanober Khan

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“You’re the closest to heaven, that I’ll ever be.” – Green Day

“I choose you. And I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I’ll keep choosing you.” – Unknown

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“Know thyself.” – Socrates

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” – Socrates

“No man ever steps in the same river twice.” – Heraclitus

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” – Oscar Wilde (attributed)

“Man is the measure of all things.” – Protagoras

“To live a fulfilling life, one must live in accordance with nature.” – Zeno of Citium

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (inspired by Socrates)

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato

“Be the energy you want to attract.” – Unknown

“Less perfection, more authenticity.” – Unknown

“She believed she could, so she did.” – R.S. Grey

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you’re alive.” – Hafiz

“Create the life you can’t wait to wake up to.” – Unknown

“Don’t shrink. Shine.” – Unknown

“Progress over perfection.” – Unknown

“You do you.” – Unknown

“Kindness is free. Sprinkle that stuff everywhere.” – Unknown

“Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.” – Unknown

“Say less. Mean more.” – Unknown

“Rise. Grind. Repeat.” – Unknown

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

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

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

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.” – Napoleon Hill

“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted.” – Christine Caine

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” – Carl Jung

“What you resist persists.” – Carl Jung

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” – Jonas Salk

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung

“We meet ourselves time and again in a long walk.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.” – Buddha

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

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

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire.” – Robert Anthony

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – David Frost

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

“Success is not owned, it is rented — and the rent is due every day.” – Chris Guillebeau

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” – Anaïs Nin

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking

“Is it possible that everything you’ve ever feared has already happened?” – Unknown

“What if the thing you’re running from is actually chasing you?” – Unknown

“Time isn’t passing. We are.” – Charlie Kaufman

“The self is not something one has, but something one does.” – Judith Butler

“Nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected.” – Unknown

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi

“Perhaps the universe is unfolding as it should.” – Max Ehrmann