100+ Graduation Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Future

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

- Jenna Wolfe

"The reality is on most matters, somebody is going to make the decision—so why not let it be you?"

- Kamala Harris

"Find out who you are. And do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Beyoncé

"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."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You've got to take risks."

- Denzel Washington

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"There is no excuse to wait a day to do what you want to do and to change the way that you want to change."

- Sophia Bush

"If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren't willing to do."

- Michael Phelps

"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

"It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it."

- Nelson Mandela

"You already have everything you need inside of you right now, today."

- Alicia Keys

"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."

- Hillary Clinton

"Just go for it. Whatever it is, don’t be afraid to start it. Nothing is ever perfect, but it can’t be improved until it exists."

- Issa Rae

"You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one, and that is this: To fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is."

- Ryan Gosling

"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

"All those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing? It turns out they don’t have all the answers. A lot of them aren’t even asking the right questions. So, if the world’s going to get better, it’s going to be up to you."

- Barack Obama

"You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream."

- Les Brown

"Whatever you choose for a career path, remember the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose."

- Chadwick Boseman

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

- Maya Angelou

"All real education is the architecture of the soul."

- William Bennett

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Go forth and set the world on fire."

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

- Steven Jobs

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- John Dewey

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

- John Wooden

"Your time is now. Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Nelson Mandela

"You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights."

- Dr. Seuss

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

- Dr. Seuss

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go..."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path."

- E.O. Wilson

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

- Steve Jobs

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Malcolm X

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Colin Powell

"It is you, the young and fearless at heart, the most diverse and educated generation in our history, who the nation is waiting to follow."

- Barack Obama

"It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Malcolm X

"It is our failure to become of perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique."

- Conan O’Brien

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

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

- Walt Disney

"Becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"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

"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

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Anthony Robbins

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"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

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

"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

"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

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

- Viola Davis

"That’s a great motto for all of us — find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs."

- Barack Obama

"Look back on the journey that brought you here. What moments challenged you most? When were you asked to step outside of your familiar territory in order to rise to the occasion of your potential? I want you to remember those moments because they will embolden you."

- Kerry Washington

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."

- Brigham Young

"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."

- Martin Luther King

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

- Harvey Mackay

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours."

- Jules Jusserand

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ian Brennan

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

- Michelle Obama

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"The future is always uncertain, but we who celebrate what you have done, who celebrate all of your achievements, we are certain of one thing on this day: You will not let us down."

- Tom Hanks

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Maya Rudolph

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

- Roger Babson

"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

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

- Florence Griffith-Joyner

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

"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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"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 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

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

- Dali

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"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

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Julia H. Gulliver

"Do more than just exist."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Kobi Yamada

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

- Albert Einstein

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

- Frank Zappa

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

- Margot Robbie

"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

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

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Harvey Mackay

"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

"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

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

- Art Linkletter

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jon Stewart

"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

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

- Tom and Ray Magliozzi

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Shakespeare

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams."

- Patch Adams

"You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Maya Angelou

"But 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

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

- Larry Winget

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

- Edmund Burke

"If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Mike Tomlin

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

- George Burns

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

- Philippians 4:13

"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

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

- Ingrid Bergman

"If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."

- Snoop Dogg

"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

"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

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Robin Williams

"I am a firm believer that you don’t achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand."

- Greg Louganis

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

- Ferris Bueller

"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

"Passion first and everything will fall into place."

- Holly Holm

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Sylvia Plath

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- André Leon Talley

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

- Thomas Edison

"Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head."

- Meryl Streep

"Your inexperience is an asset in that it will make you think in original, unconventional ways. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset."

- Natalie Portman

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

- Frederick W. Robertson

"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

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

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"Some life lessons don’t ever change. They need to be highlighted and they need to be remembered throughout our entire lives. But how you embrace them will distinguish you from the pack."

- Brooke Shields

"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

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

- H Jackson Brown Jr.

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

"Just because you don’t know what you want yet, it doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to want."

- Emily Henry

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

- Omar N. Bradley

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

- H. Jackson Browne Jr.

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

- Jane Wagner

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

- Steven Wright

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Frank Zappa

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

"Follow your fear."

- Tina Fey

"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

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

- Dick Costolo

"There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized."

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Gabrielle Giffords

"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

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

- Jerry Seinfeld

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

- Paula Poundstone

"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

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

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Ferris Bueller

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

- Lucy Van Pelt

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

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

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

"Whether you loved your college days or hated them, you’re now free to take on the world. Know that you’re always growing, changing, and learning to be the best version of yourself."

"Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you’re right: So, as you embrace this new journey, remember that mindset really is everything."

"Graduation isn’t the end of a tough journey. It is the beginning of a beautiful one."

"Never stop growing, exploring, learning, and challenging yourself."

"School may be over, but life’s lessons are yet to be learned. Keep an open heart and mind. Happy graduation!"

"The journey of life brings both challenges and chances. May you snatch the chances and beat the challenges. Congratulations on graduating."

"Start each day believing in yourself and watch the magic happen."

"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. And, before you quit, try."

"Challenges and setbacks are a part of life. Learn how to manage your reactions to difficult situations and you’ll be unstoppable."

"Be curious and bold as you forge through life, and you’ll never go wrong."

"You’ll continue to soar as long as you stay true to yourself."

"Never chase other people’s dreams. You’re unique and so are your aspirations."

"Remain humble, work hard, and it will pay off."

"There are no shortcuts to true success. Keep working hard and the rest will follow!"

"Life is full of surprises. Take them in stride and never lose sight of your goals."

"Congratulations! Don’t think of this as an ending, but rather, an exciting beginning."

"Go into the world and do well, but more importantly, go into the world and do good."

"May your feet always take you where your heart wants to go."

"Remember, if opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

"Congratulations on your big day! We're so proud of you and all your accomplishments! Can't wait to see what you do next. Wishing you a future filled with wonderful adventures and amazing opportunities!"

"Woohoo! You made it, [Name]! May your graduation be the beginning of all that you wish and hope for! Congratulations!"

"Today you are officially a graduate! Time to celebrate all your awesome accomplishments and get ready for even bigger things ahead. Go get 'em and congratulations, [Grad Name]!"

"[Name], your studying has paid off! Here's to the start of a bright and successful future. Keep shining!"

"Congrats on your graduation, [Name]! Hats off to you, [Name]! You did it! Now, go out there and rock the world like a superstar!"