100+ Graduation Inspiration Quotes to Ignite Your Future

"As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Am I good enough? Yes, I am."

- Michelle Obama

"Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning."

- Senator Orrin Hatch

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success."

- Nelson Mandela

"You’re off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So ... get on your way."

- Dr. Seuss

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars."

- Nelson Mandela

"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure."

- Aisha Tyler

"Accept no one’s definition of your life. Define yourself."

- Harvey Fierstein

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Your education has prepared you for what lies ahead."

- Conan O’Brien

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."

- Jimmy Dugan

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"Do more than just exist."

- Steve Maraboli

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and be told, ‘I am with you kid. Let’s go!’"

- Maya Angelou

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."

- Omar N. Bradley

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

- Henri Bergson

"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

"Passion first and everything will fall into place."

- Holly Holm

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

- Les Brown

"A star is a rock that never gave up on its dream to rise."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Success is loving life and daring to live it."

- Maya Angelou

"Through discipline comes freedom."

- Aristotle

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are . . . to everyone else, it’s just a blip on the radar screen, so just move on."

- Jerry Zucker

"Go make your big beautiful dent, and as you do so come down on the side of boldness. If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough. You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self."

- Sue Monk Kidd

"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."

- H. Jackson Browne Jr.

"You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back."

- Stephen Colbert

"I look to the future because that is where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."

- George Burns

"I am here to tell you that whatever you think your dream is now, it will probably change. And that’s okay."

- Conan O’Brien

"The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective."

- Jon Stewart

"You will stumble and fall, you will experience both disaster and triumph, sometimes in the same day. But it's really important to remember that like a hangover, neither triumphs nor disasters last forever."

- Helen Mirren

"Success is not about wealth or fame, but about inner happiness and fulfillment."

- Margot Robbie

"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"

- George W. Bush

"If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

- William Lyon Phelps

"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."

- Sarah Brown

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."

- Charles Schulz

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

- Dead Poets Society

"You must always have faith in people. And, most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself."

- Legally Blonde

"Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Go for it."

- 10 Things I Hate About You

"It’s fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there’s another one tomorrow. I’m gonna start makin’ them count."

- The Spectacular Now

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices."

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead."

- Ratatouille

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"There’s just no telling how far I’ll go."

- Moana

"No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else."

- The Greatest Showman

"Part of the journey is the end."

- Avengers Endgame

"Adventure is out there!"

- Charles Muntz

"That wasn’t flying; that was falling with style."

- Toy Story

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."

- John Wooden

"Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings."

- Dali

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try it."

- John F. Kennedy

"There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in."

- Dick Costolo

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

"Go forth and set the world on fire."

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

"Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains."

- Albert Einstein

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

- Albert Einstein

"I look to the future because that is where I’m going to spend the rest of my life."

- George Burns

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential."

- Kerry Washington

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"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 Pujols

"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision, a plan, and the courage to chase after it relentlessly."

- Walt Disney

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are."

- JP Morgan

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give into peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."

- Anatole France

"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse."

- Edward Koch

"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

"Kid, you’ll move mountains."

- Dr. Seuss

"Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them."

- H Jackson Brown Jr.

"Do all the other things, the ambitious things—travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness."

- George Saunders

"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

"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"

- Louisa May Alcott

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You don’t go to university so you can punch a clock. You go to university so you can be in a position to make a difference."

- Janet Napolitano

"Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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.’"

- Cory Booker

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"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."

- Jim Carrey

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"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."

- J.K. Rowling

"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

"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

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

"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

"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

"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education; because that would mean we had stopped growing."

- Julia H. Gulliver

"You can never plan the future by the past."

- Edmund Burke

"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

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"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

"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."

- Roger Babson

"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

"Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have to make things happen."

- Florence Griffith-Joyner

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands."

- Anne Frank

"Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for great things."

- Josh Hinds

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"You must continue to dream the wild dream that you dreamed when you were young."

- Mike Tomlin

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile."

- Max Lucado

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

- Philippians 4:13

"Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."

- Timothy 4:12

"Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."

- Proverbs 16:3

"The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

- Deuteronomy 31:8

"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Do not pray for easier lives, pray to be stronger men."

- John F. Kennedy

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

- Audrey Hepburn

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."

- Michelle Obama

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"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

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."

- Steve Jobs

"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."

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

"Be the hardest working person you know. Because if you’re not, someone else will be."

- Ian Brennan

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you"

- Muhammad Ali

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"What do you have to do? What do you want to do? Tomorrow is not promised. Make plans anyway."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"Change takes courage."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"You're never a loser until you quit trying."

- Mike Ditka

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

- Steven Jobs

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

- Oprah Winfrey

"To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift."

- Steve Prefontaine

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

- Arnold Palmer

"If you can’t outplay them, outwork them."

- Ben Hogan

"This above all: To thine own self be true."

- William Shakespeare

"Do. Or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"Be bold, be courageous, be your best."

- Gabrielle Giffords

"It is absolutely still possible to make a difference."

- Michelle Obama

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."

- George Burns

"All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"She turned her can’ts into cans and her dreams into plans."

- Kobi Yamada

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

- Oscar Wilde

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible.'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."

- Jack Dempsey

"Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are."

- Lady Gaga

"Building your community is how you change the world."

- LeBron James

"Never let anyone put you in a box or tell you what you can do. Make sure you paint your own picture and go your own path, and continue to think outside the box."

- Magic Johnson

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

- Beyoncé

"Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different, just try hard to be you."

- Zendaya

"If you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise."

- Rupi Kaur

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do all the other things, the ambitious things — travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness."

- George Saunders

"A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward."

- Harvey Mackay

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

"Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out."

- Art Linkletter

"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 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

"Be willing to embrace wonder, to experience unexpected discovery, and to go in unknown directions. Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes."

- Melissa Harris-Perry

"It’s your turn to choose and define what success means to you. Now, others will try to define it for you, but yours is the only voice that matters."

- Octavia Spencer

"And though she be but little, she is fierce."

- Shakespeare

"Behind you, all your memories. Before you, all your dreams. Around you, all who love you. Within you, all you need."

- Lilli Vaihere

"Fight for what makes you optimistic about the world. Find it, insist on it, dig into it, go after it."

- Jennifer Garner

"If I must give any of you advice it would be say yes. Say yes, and create your own destiny."

- Maya Rudolph

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."

- Frank Zappa

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."

- Will Rogers

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."

- Betty Reese

"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

"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

"You will never have more energy or enthusiasm, hair, or brain cells than you have today."

- Tom and Ray Magliozzi

"Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don’t achieve it you haven’t failed and you’re not some loser."

- Stephen Colbert

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it"

- Robin Williams

"Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just going to end up lonely."

- Selena Gomez

"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

"When we show up, act boldly, and practice the best ways to be wrong, we fail forward. No matter where we end up, we’ve grown from where we began."

- Stacey Abrams

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"You could travel with the sheep, follow everybody else’s stuff, but then you’re not you. I guess if I want to say anything it’s ‘Be you.’ Be true to you, and that should make the ride a little more interesting."

- Whoopi Goldberg

"There will be times when your best isn’t good enough. There can be many reasons for this, but as long as you give your best you’ll be OK."

- Robert De Niro

"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

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."

- Maya Angelou

"There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. Wouldn’t you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more everyday like a photograph coming into focus."

- Jodie Foster

"Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing."

- Madeleine Albright

"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

"A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."

- Chuck Norris

"It’s the choice. You have to wake up every day and say, ‘There’s no reason today can’t be the best day of my life’."

- Blake Lively

"Your self worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer."

- Rihanna

"I'm continually trying to make choices that put me out of my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable it means you're growing."

- Ashton Kutcher

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."

- Derek Jeter

"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

"You can never be the best. The only thing you can be the best at is developing yourself."

- Natalie Portman

"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.'"

- Cory Booker

"Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or started a business, or fed a young mind, or sent men into space. Cynicism is a choice. Hope is a better choice."

- Barack Obama

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say 'Why?' say 'Why not?'"

- Billie Jean King

"I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be."

- Demi Lovato

"Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered."

- Michelle Obama

"Remember this: You are awesome. I’m not suggesting you be boastful. No one likes that in men or women. But I am suggesting that believing in yourself is the first necessary step to coming even close to achieving your potential."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short and you’re too special."

- Ariana Grande

"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."

- Michelle Obama

"We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification and Instagram, but there is no way to short circuit the path to success."

- Tory Burch

"Trust your gut, keep throwing darts at the dartboard. Don’t listen to the critics – and you will figure it out."

- Will Ferrell

"We are all deserving and we don’t need permission or an invitation to exist and to step into our power."

- Ilhan Omar

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

- Taylor Swift

"Understand that one day you will have the power to make a difference, so use it well."

- Mindy Kaling

"It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it."

- Meryl Streep

"Embrace your uniqueness for it is what makes you truly beautiful."

- Dove Cameron

"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

"I’ve always done whatever I want and been exactly who I am."

- Billie Eilish

"Started from the bottom, now we’re here."

- Drake

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"Sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is."

- America Ferrera

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

"Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary."

- Gerard Way

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is: head down and focus on the job."

- Chris Pine

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

- Helen Keller

"I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself."

- Emma Stone

"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

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"So often in life things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Be kind to yourself a little more every day."

- Dua Lipa

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away."

- Joy J. Golliver

"No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better."

- Bobbi Brown

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"I celebrate you as you remember the power of grace and pride, and I challenge you to choose freedom over fear."

- Janelle Monáe

"And here you are living despite it all."

- Rupi Kaur

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Work so hard that you never have to introduce yourself."

- Gigi Hadid

"Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you."

- Rihanna

"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman."

- Melinda Gates

"For every winner, there doesn't have to be a loser. In fact, most success stories are less about competition and more about collaboration."

- Michelle Yeoh

"Time is the most valuable resource on the planet."

- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

"Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity."

- Will Smith

"Life can be heavy if you carry it all at once. Know what to keep and what to release. Decide what is yours to hold, and let all the other things go."

- Taylor Swift

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

"The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear."

- Grace Helbig

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

- Henry Peter Brougham

"The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."

- Arnold Palmer

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."

- Frederick W. Robertson

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely."

- Karen Kaiser Clark

"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

"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

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul."

- Joseph Addison

"In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality."

- Kristian Kan

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules."

- Neil Gaiman

"There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When you leave here, don’t forget why you came."

- Adlai E. Stevenson

"Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along."

- Stephen Colbert

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- André Leon Talley

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

- Albert Einstein

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"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

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

"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

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Please don’t be afraid, don’t worry yourself. The end and beginning, beginning and end are connected."

- BTS’s Suga

"You’re not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack."

- Bill Gates

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

- Albert Einstein

"When someone who loves you hugs you, hug them back with two arms—don’t do the one-arm hug, because when you hug someone with two arms, it allows you to lean on somebody, and we all need someone to lean on."

- Sandra Bullock

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

- Chinese proverb

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Summer vacation does kind of set up an adulthood of disappointment. That first job, you’re like, ‘I have to go to work in July? What is this, Russia?’"

- Jim Gaffigan

"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational."

- Lucy Van Pelt

"People don’t turn down money. It’s what separates us from the animals."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"When all else fails, there’s always delusion."

- Conan O’Brien

"As you set off into the world, don’t be afraid to question your leaders. But don’t ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky."

- Will Ferrell

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

- Oscar Wilde

"Did everyone see that? Because I will not be doing it again."

- Pirates of the Caribbean

"Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas."

- Paula Poundstone

"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."

- Jane Wagner

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"Do not take life too seriously — you will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don’t know about. Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.’ Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken."

- Amy Poehler

"You’re only given a little spark of madness, you mustn’t lose it."

- Robin Williams

"If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you."

- Steven Wright

"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine."

- A. A. Milne

"Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path; then, by all means, you should follow that path."

- Ellen Degeneres

"You’re still here? It’s over. Go home. Go."

- Ferris Bueller

"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."

- Gary Bolding

"Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother."

- Melanie White

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open."

- Frank Zappa

"There’s always going to be someone who doesn’t like you."

- Ariana Grande

"When you respect the idea that you are sharing the Earth with other humans, and when you lead with your nice foot forward, you’ll win, every time. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but it comes back to you when you need it."

- Kristen Bell

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind."

"She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future."

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"You will screw it up sometimes."

"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws."