Hats off to the graduating class of 2022! You did it.
150 Graduation Quotes
- Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too. — Patrick Ness
- There is no passion to be found in playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. —Nelson Mandela
- The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.” — Ed Koch
- Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. —Dr. Seuss
- Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
- You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. — Mahatma Ghandi
- The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it? — Benjamin Franklin
- Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill
- Don’t underestimate the power of your dreams. — Corinna Kong
- You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. —Oprah Winfrey
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
- Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day. — Premier Brian Gallant
- 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
- There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C.S. Lewis
- The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
- No, sky is not the limit. It is only the beginning. — Donovan Livingston
- Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them. —H Jackson Brown Jr.
- There are no regrets in life. Just lessons. —Jennifer Aniston
- Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh
- Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye. – Helen Keller
- To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. – E.E. Cummings
- Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Confucius
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. – Mark Twain
- Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon
- 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
- Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate their boldness. — Wayne W. Dyer
- Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try. — Sheryl Sandberg
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. — Samuel Johnson
- It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. — William Shakespeare
- Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do, and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. — Frederick Douglass
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know it when you find it. —Steve Jobs
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
- Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. — Hillary Clinton
- You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up. — Aaron Sorkin
- A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. —John A. Shedd
- 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
- You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. — Rosalynn Smith Carter
- The road to success is always under construction. — Lily Tomlin
- Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. — Babe Ruth
- We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. —Nelson Mandela
- Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. – Leonardo da Vinci
- Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer. —David McCullough Jr.
- Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. – Les Brown
- Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell
- The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. — Sydney Harris
- 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
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- There may be days when you’ll say to yourself, ‘I can’t. I literally can’t even.’ But you can! You can even! — Katie Couric
- So many of our dreams first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. —Christopher Reeve
- Share your sparkle wherever you are. – Dodinsky
- 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
- If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done. — Thomas Jefferson
- 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
- Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do. – Oprah
- Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. — Louisa May Alcott
- Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. — Martin Luther King Jr.
- Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. — Malcolm X
- You will find the key to success under the alarm clock. — Benjamin Franklin
- You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. — A.A. Milne
- Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings. – Dali
- No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid. —Lupita Nyong’o
- Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. — Nora Ephron
- Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. —Jon Stewart
- 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
- It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. — Woody Allen
- Showing up is 80 percent of life. – Woody Allen
- I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least resistance. — Lee Ann Womack
- The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. — B.B. King
- No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. — Robin Williams
- If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. — Ronnie Lott
- Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life. — Gloria Davidson
- Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try. – William Arthur Ward
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. —Joseph Addison
- Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right. – Henry Ford
- Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. — Frederick W. Robertson
- Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. — John F. Kennedy
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
- Do or do not. There is no try. — Yoda
- Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. — Wendy Wasserstein
- Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. — Henry Peter Brougham
- 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
- If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. — Frank A. Clark
- Success doesn’t 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
- Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. —Jim Carrey
- When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. — Adlai E. Stevenson
- 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
- The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. – Jon Stewart
- Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. — Napoleon Hill
- The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. – Dale Carnegie
- Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. — Denzel Washington
- The world rewards those who take responsibility for their own success. – Curt Gerrish
- Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother. — Melanie White
- Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. — Arnold H. Glasow
- The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. — Anthony Robbins
- If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. — Milton Berle
- It is absolutely still possible to make a difference. — Michelle Obama
- Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have to make things happen. — Florence Griffith-Joyner
- There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in. — Dick Costolo
- Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Charles Swindoll
- Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you’ll have more beads than you know what to do with. —Ellen DeGeneres
- Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
- In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. — Kristian Kan
- The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. — Fred Dehner
- Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam
- Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. — Arthur Ashe
- Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. — Anna Quindlen
- Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that. – Ellen DeGeneres
- It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. — Henry Ford
- 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
- 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
- Why fit in when you were born to stand out? — Dr. Seuss
- Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. — Oprah Winfrey
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Gandhi
- Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. – Ella Fitzgerald
- We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — Shakespeare
- The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules. — Neil Gaiman
- Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. — Maya Angelou
- The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will”. — Charles Dickens
- Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. — Kyle Chandler
- What we learn with pleasure we never forget. — Alfred Mercier
- Follow your fear. — Tina Fey
- Educationis the ability to meet life’s situations. — John G. Hibben
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. — Truman Capote
- Set your goals, take the action, live your dreams. — Catherine Pulsifer
- Either write something worth reading, or do something worth reading. — Benjamin Franklin
- 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
- It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old; they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. —Gabriel García Márquez
- You can never be overdressed or overeducated. — Oscar Wilde
- The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear. — Grace Helbig
- Now the first suggestion is to aim high, but be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live. — Sandra Day O’Connor
- The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers
- If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh
- We don’t stop going to school when we graduate. — Carol Burnett
- It’s always a good move to listen to that inner voice…if it doesn’t lead to a crime. – Lisa Kudrow
- Believe and act is if it were impossible to fail. — Charles Kettering
- Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson
- Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential. – Kerry Washington
- The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. — Newton D. Baker
- 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
- Never doubt your abilities, believe in yourself. — Catherine Pulsifer
- 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
- Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing. – Pele
- Your education has prepared you for whatever happens. — Roderick Paige Want more great quotes? Check out…150 Life Quotes 50 Thinking of You Quotes150 Good Morning Quotes100 Stay Positive Quotes50 Friday Quotes100 Quotes about Change100 Teacher Quotes
