Graduation can feel like the first day of the rest of your grad’s life. And your Graduation has finally come! It is not only a milestone for students, but it’s also a milestone for the family and friends who have supported them. So let your day be a confident and motivating one with our inspirational quotes for graduation that can help you to express how you feel.

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• 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.
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
• Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You’ve got to take risks.
• Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.
• It’s wisdom that will put all the inevitable failures and rejections and disappointments and heartbreaks into perspective.
• You don’t have a job? Get one. Any job! Don’t sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Do something until you can do something else.
• Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
• Empathy has gotten me so much farther in not only my life, but in my career.
• Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.
• Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
• Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
• There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
• Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day, like a photograph coming into focus.
• Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.
• Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’
• The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

Inspirational Graduation Quotes And Sayings

• 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.
• When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.
• Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
• I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.
• 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.
• 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.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
• The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
• If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
• In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.
• If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
• You have to dance a little bit before you step out into the world each day, because it changes the way you walk.
• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Graduation Quotes About Life

• Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
• I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us tomorrow, more than we deserve.
• Get busy living or get busy dying.
• Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.
• In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
• Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
• Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
• You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
• Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
• Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
• The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Funny Graduation Quotes

• My dear terrified graduates, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives. The stories you are about to live are the ones you will be telling your children, and grandchildren, and therapists.
• The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
• Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
• 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.
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
• Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
• To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
• If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.
• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.
• Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
• I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
• The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time.
• The road to success is always under construction.
• There may be days when you’ll say to yourself, ‘I can’t. I literally can’t even.’ But you can! You can even!
• Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
• Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’