Top 40 Graduation Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

2. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes

3. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Change Quotes

4. “Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

5. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

Also featured in: Life Quotes

6. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

— Sydney J. Harris

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Learning Quotes

7. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Travel Quotes

8. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Running Quotes

9. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes

10. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Quotes About Dreams

11. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Moving On Quotes

12. “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

— William Jennings Bryan

13. “Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Mistake Quotes

14. “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Witty Quotes

15. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

16. “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”

— Ronnie Lott

Also featured in: Mind Quotes, Quotes About Believing

17. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes, Quotes About Trying

18. “We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Time Quotes, New Year Quotes

19. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

— E.E. Cummings

Also featured in: Being Yourself Quotes

20. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes

21. “Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes

22. “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Learning Quotes

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

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

24. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

— Will Rogers

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes

25. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

— André Gide

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Travel Quotes

26. “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

27. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes

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

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Change Quotes

29. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Also featured in: Life Quotes

30. “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”

— Sarah Caldwell

Also featured in: Gratitude Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

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

— Anatole France

32. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

33. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

— Francis Bacon

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

34. “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Success Quotes

35. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes

36. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Wise Quotes

37. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

38. “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

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Failure Quotes

39. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Education Quotes, Teaching Quotes

40. “If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Sports Quotes