Top Inspirational Quotes for Graduation Caps: Celebrate Your Achievement with Meaningful Words

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Walt Disney

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

"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

"Celebrate endings — for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Oh the places you’ll go!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Dream Big Worry Small"

- Rascal Flatts

"Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Anatole France

"If you own this story you get to write the ending."

- Brené Brown

"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

"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

"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

"Passion first and everything will fall into place."

- Holly Holm

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"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

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions."

- Edgar Cayce

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Peter Drucker

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

- Steve Jobs

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

- Seneca

"And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Ingrid Bergman

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- George Burns

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Ferris Bueller

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

- Albert Einstein

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

- Pericles

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Winston Churchill

"Oh, the places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"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

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

- Judy Garland

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"We do not need magic to change the world, we can carry all the power we need inside ourselves already."

- JK Rowling

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Okay ladies, now let’s get in (graduation) formation."

- Beyonce

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dali

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try."

- William Arthur Ward

"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

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future."

- Plato

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

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

- Kerry Washington

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that’s wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that’s worse. This is a day."

- Frank Clark

"Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire."

- Jennifer Lee

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

- Maya Angelou

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."

- Helen Keller

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Milton Berle

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"May the job market be ever in our favor."

- The Hunger Games

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

- Frank A. Clark

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

- Francis Bacon

"Showing up is 80 percent of life."

- Woody Allen

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one."

- John Lennon

"Can't wait to see what you do next"

- Tricky_Caregiver

"Goodbye, Ordinary-ish People!"

- SixThousandHulls

"We’re only going up from here"

- ButterscotchExpress1

"The journey is the destination."

- Dan Eldon

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

- Arthur Ashe

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Be a voice, not an echo."

- Albert Einstein

"If you’re reading this I graduated."

- Drake

"99 Problems but a degree ain’t one."

- Jay-Z

"Look at this degree, isn’t it neat? Finally my Bachelor’s is complete!"

- The Little Mermaid

"Thank you, next."

- Ariana Grande

"Just did it!"

- Nike

"Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created."

- Esther 4:14

"Let your light so shine."

- Matthew 5:16

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

- Proverbs 31:25

"I chose my path but God ordered my steps."

- Proverbs 16:9

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

- Proverbs 16:3

"For I know the plans I have for you."

- Jeremiah 29:11

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

- Jim Carrey

"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

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun."

- Joss Whedon

"God is within her so she can master anything."

- Psalm 46:5

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

- Betty Reese

"We have to dance it out. That’s how we finish it."

- Grey’s Anatomy

"Slowing down is not really my jam."

- Parks & Recreation

"What? Like it’s hard?"

- Legally Blonde

"you say i turned out fine, i think im still turning out"

- smiley_face76

"Do you wanna be there to see how I turn out"

- Then-Bus-8942

"they wanted heaven from me, I gave ‘em hell"

- This_Pizza5325

"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

"well i’m not dead yet, so i guess i’ll be alright."

- stupid_spidey

"But I'm not dead yet so I guess I'll be alright"

- saharxx

"Sorry to bail, it's already three o'clock It's too hard to tell if anything's real or not"

- DiamondDude102

"You never heard of me all the weird shit I do and say"

- Then-Bus-8942

"Holy moly today's a real do nothing day"

- Far-Cod-8858

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

"I Am Not Throwing Away My Shot"

"Hard Work Makes the Dream Work"

"Go Forth with Confidence"

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"What feels like the end is often the beginning."

"And so the adventure begins."

"Nevertheless, she persisted."

"Work hard in silence and let success make the noise."

"If your dreams don’t scare you they aren’t big enough."

"Turn Pain into Power"

"Worry Less, Laugh More"

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

"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 think you can or you can’t, you are right."

"When You Slayed College"

"The best is yet to come."

"You didn’t come this far to only come this far."

"Dream big. Work hard. Stay focused."

"It seemed hard until I mastered it."

"Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace."

"The tassel is worth the hassle!"

"Think, believe, dream, and dare."

"You’ll Bring Honor to Us All"

"I Busted Mine to Save Yours"

"Dobby is a Free Elf"

"Bright Pearly White Future"

"Chase your dreams, not people."

"On to the next chapter."

"Here’s to a great, big, beautiful tomorrow."

"The tassel was worth the hassle."

"Grateful, blessed, and ready for more."

"This is just the beginning."

"Make today amazing."

"I did it my way."

"I did my best. God did the rest."

"My story, His glory."

"I trust the next chapter because I know the author."

"With God all things are possible."

"She believed she could so she mastered it."

"Here’s to the nights we’ll never forget and the friends we’ll always remember."

"She doesn’t even go here!"

"What’s next?"

"La La Land"

"Mischief Managed"

"Mischief Managed."

"Great Things Come in Small Packages"

"The best time for new beginnings is now."