165 Graduation Quotes On Success, Dreams and Your Future

A graduation is an important rite of passage to so many people, and this famous graduation quotes will help you find the courage to follow your heart and intuition going forward.

A lovely commencement and the start of a bright future, these graduation quotes will excite you of things to come.

A graduation signifies many things. It indicates progress, growth, and transformation. When you graduate, it means you’re a more mature being who is ready to start a new chapter in life

Graduation is an exciting opportunity to celebrate your accomplishments. It ‘s a time to celebrate all of the hard work you’ve put into your education. So, let these quotes for graduation help you remember what you’ve achieved, as well as give you the courage to pursue future opportunity.

As the school year comes to an end many students and graduates face a time of reflection, celebration, and even confusion.

“What’s next?”

“What should I do?”

“Where do I go from here?”

We hope these motivational graduation quotes will help you become more confident about your dreams and goals, at such an important time in your life!

Graduation Quotes about the next chapter in your life

1. “Success doesn’t rush. The greatest reward is the journey!” – Jeff Moore

2. “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill

3. “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

4. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

5. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” –Steve Jobs

6. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.

7. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

8. “Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.”– Kerry Washington

9. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi

10. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Graduation quotes to make you wiser

11. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers

12. “All our dreams can come true… if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

13. “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – JK Rowling

14. “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

15. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.” – Ella Fitzgerald

16. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”–John Maxwell

17. “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”–George Washington Carver

18. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”–Albert Schweitzer

19. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”–Winston Churchill

20. “Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.” – Harold B Melchart

Graduation quotes to inspire success

21. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi

22. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” – Muhammad Ali

23. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” – Unknown

24. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. –Robert Louis Stevenson

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

26. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

27. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve

28. “Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life.” —Frederick W. Robertson

29. “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

30. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Graduation quotes to inspire you as you enter the real world

31. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

32. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”– Henry David Thoreau

33. “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

34. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”– Nelson Mandela

35. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”– Milton Berle

36. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” —Helen Keller

37. “Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.” —H Jackson Brown Jr.

38. “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

39. “Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.” – Dick Costolo

40. “It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.”- Jerry Zucker

Graduation quotes to inspire hope for the future

41. “Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it… Err in the direction of kindness.” – GEORGE SAUNDERS

42. “As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.”— Michael Dell

43. “Kid, you’ll move mountains. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so get on your way!”— Dr. Seuss

44. “Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.”— Senator Orrin Hatch

45. “This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.” – MERYL STREEP

46. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing.” – Pele

47. “Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know it when you find it.” —Steve Jobs

48. “Don’t make excuses, don’t blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!” – Joel Osteen

49. “The world rewards those who take responsibility for their own success.” – Curt Gerrish

50. “Share your sparkle wherever you are.” – Dodinsky

Graduation quotes to inspire and teach

51. “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” —Henry Peter Brougham

52. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss

53. “Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power.” —Larry Winget

54. “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”– Albert Einstein

55. “There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” —Jennifer Aniston

56. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”– E.E. Cummings

57. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison

58. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. “Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.”- Oprah Winfrey

60. “Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.” – Anna Quindlen

Inspirational graduation quotes to read

61. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X

62. “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”– Jim Carrey

63. “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

64. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”– Helen Keller

65. “When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.” —Adlai E. Stevenson

66. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” —Dr. Seuss

67. “Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.”
– Joss Whedon

68. “Be bold, be courageous, be your best.” – Gabrielle Giffords

69. “You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.” – David Foster Wallace

70. “Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.” – Dick Costolo

Graduation quotes to inspire and motivate you

71. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”– Confucius

72. “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

73. “Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”– William Arthur Ward

74. “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

75. “The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.”– Jon Stewart

76. “Showing up is 80 percent of life.”– Woody Allen

77. “A world where men ran half our homes and women ran half our institutions would be just a much better world.” — Sheryl Sandberg

78. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein

79. “The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.” — Edward Koch

80. “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

Inspirational quotes for graduates to help you look forward to the future

81. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett

82. “Today is a milestone. It tells you how far you’ve come. Keep learning, keep trying, keep accomplishing, and keep venturing on through your journey. Congratulations!” – Unknown

83. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

84. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome

85. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

86. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

87. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford

88. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

89. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso

90. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vidal Sassoon

Famous graduation quotes to help pursue future opportunity

91. “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Herbert

92. “Graduation isn’t the end of a tough journey. It is the beginning of a beautiful one…” – Unknown

93. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

94. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

95. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” –Anonymous

96. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb

97. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

98. “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal

99. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

100. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ” – Les Brown

Graduation quotes to inspire you along your journey

101. “Always be the first-rate version of yourself, instead of the second-rate version of somebody else.”– Judy Garland

102. “It’s always a good move to listen to that inner voice…if it doesn’t lead to a crime.”– Lisa Kudrow

103. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

104. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden

“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah

105. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” – Kim Garst

106. “I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

107. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

108. “I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” – Martha Stewart

109. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

110. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

Graduation quotes that are inspirational

111. “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

112. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

113. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

114. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder

115. “Courage is one step ahead of fear.” – Coleman Young

116. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” –Napoleon Hill

117. “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” – J.M. Barrie

118. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa

119. “Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.” – Zig Ziglar

120. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey

121. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

122. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

123. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

124. “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.” – Bette Davis

125. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

Graduation quotes that will inspire you to achieve your future dreams

126. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stow

127. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

128. “Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.” —Kevin Ngo

129. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

130. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

131. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

132. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” —Sam Levenson

133. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

134. “No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” – Lupita Nyong’o

135. “The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
– Tom Bradley

Graduation quotes to inspire and motivate you

136. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe

137. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work.” – Thomas J. Watson

138. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir

139. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun

140. “There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” —Michael Phelps

141. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

142. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison

143. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine

144. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

145. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty

Graduation quotes to encourage you

146. “What is considered impossible is someone else’s opinion. What is possible is my decision.”― Idowu Koyenikan

147. “I have lots of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.” – Oprah Winfrey

148. “When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.”― Suzy Kassem

149. “Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” – John Wooden

150 .“Believe in your greatness. Because what you believe is what you become.”― Udai Yadla

151. “You will never find time for anything. You must make it.” – Charles Buxton

152. “Life is a teacher. We are the student.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

153. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told.” – Alan Keightley

154. “It is not speed that matters, it’s persistence.”― Abhijit Naskar

155. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” – Venus Williams

More Graduation quotes and sayings

156. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

157. “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

158. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha

159. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

160. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” – Kahlil Gibran

161. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb

162. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

163. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch

164. “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi

165. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” –Leonardo da Vinci

Which graduation quotes were your favorite?

Graduation is such an important time in life. Whether you’re finishing up elementary, middle, high school, or college, graduation is an important milestone in your learning journey.

Hopefully, these inspirational quotes for graduates have given you the courage to believe and fight for your dreams and goals.

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