140 Senior Quotes: Celebrating the End of an Era
You made it! You’re finally graduating! Now it’s time to celebrate and share your excitement with friends and family.
A great quote can say it all, and we’ve got you covered. We’ve collected 140 amazing senior quotes that are funny, inspiring, and memorable.
Whether you need a quote for your yearbook, social media, or just for fun, we’ve got the perfect ones for you.
Take a look and find your favorite quotes now!
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Inspirational/Motivational Senior Quotes
- “Change da world, my final message, goodbye.”
- “Drop your socks and grab your crocs, we’re about to. get wet on this ride” – Tony Stark, Iron Man 2
- “Go farther, go further, go harder, and if not then why bother?” – Jay-Z and Lil Wayne
- “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” —Kyle Chandler
- “Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” – Iain Duncan Smith
- “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ― George Herman Ruth
- “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “I haven’t even begun to peak.” —Dennis Reynolds
- “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know if you’re gonna graduate.” – Franco Citlalli
- “Shoot for the moon; if you miss you will die in space, which is cool.” — Katya Zamolodchikova
- “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain
- “Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.” — Melanie White
- “I’m a senior, but I stay freshman.” – Martin Alvarado
- “Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.” – Mitchel Wieland
- “When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into the ground so they can let me down. One last time.” — Jenna Allen
- “The only reason I went to school all this time is to distract myself from the fact that I’ll never be Beyoncé.” — McKenzie Ward
- “Goodbye everyone, I’ll remember you all in therapy.” — Plankton
- “You’re all gonna regret not dating me in high school.” — Jocelyn Madero
- “If I can graduate with over 150 absences throughout high school, you can too.“ — Natalie Turk
- “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Shoot for the moon even if you miss, you’ll land upon the stars”
- “The lesson of Icarus isn’t don’t fly too close to the sun, it’s make better wings.” – Dev Ayesa
Funny Senior Quotes
- “Nah I’d win”
- “I’m way cuter in person.”
- “Donuts are always the answer.”
- “I finally learned how to right good.”
- “Wow! I’m glad that’s over!”
- “I don’t have friends. I got family.” – Dom Torretto
- “Arson is an element?”
- “Is soy milk just regular milk introducing itself in Spanish?”
- “I’m just trynna ball why these dudes want me neutered”
- “Balls”
- “See kids? I told you I was good looking in high school.”
- “The roof is not my son, but I will raise it.” —Anonymous
- “Reality continues to ruin my life” – Calvin & Hobbes
- “I bequeath my locker to my younger brother.”
- “Veni, Vidi, Vici” (while a serious phrase, the context here seems humorous)
- “It’s so hard being a silly goose in this anti-whimsy world”
- “Can I please stay another year? – said no one.”
- “I spent 113,880 hours of my life for a paper and a handshake.”
- “Goodbye old boyfriends. Hello new boyfriends!”
- “They hate us cus they ain’t us!”
- “This wasn’t like high school musical at all”
- “When life shuts a door, open it back up. That’s how doors work!”
- “Oh, my life / Is changing everyday / In every possible way” – The Cranberries
- “You take your power back by having no fear.”
- “Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded.”
- “I’m so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. Fell behind all my classmates, and ended up here.”
- “To be a Harvard Man is an enviable distinction” – JFK
- “No more homework, no more books! No more teacher’s dirty looks!”
- “Don’t follow your dreams, follow me on X at [insert handle].”
- “This was so easy a caveman could do it.”
- “We made it! #YOLO”
- “Life’s too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me, and I’ll laugh at you.”
- “See you all at the 10 year reunion!”
- “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. It’ll soon be here.”
- “If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
- “What can I say about school? I laughed. I cried. My parents tell me it was fun.”
- “They asked me to write something. So here it is: Something.”
- “Why fall in love when you can fall asleep.”
- “One day I will rule the world.”
- “High School Musical is pretty unrealistic.”
- “No, Miranda, your senior quote can’t be ‘Fries before guys.'” —Dad
- “Any pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough.”
- “High school was easy. It was like riding a bike. Except the bike was on fire and the ground was on fire and everything was on fire because it wasn’t easy.”
- “I know what you’re all thinking, ‘How did I pass this guy up?'”
- “You’re all gonna regret not dating me in high school.”
- “If I still look this good in 10 years, I’ll be happy.”
- For twins: “My senior project was to make a clone.” “A+”
- “It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.”
- “#nofilter #girl #senior #TBT #ImOut”
- “Carpe Diem! Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary!” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society (note: while inspirational, the context is humorous)
- “Not 24 but ‘I have nothing to lose but everything to gain.'”
- “”Nuff said”
- “”Stars aren’t meant to be seen alone. That’s why there’s so many of them”
- “clumsy encouraging squealing boast normal crime cooperative recognise slimy disarm”
- “I did it for me”
- “Lowkey I’ll just put my friend’s one here “when thunder roars, God is bowling”
Memorable Yearbook Quotes
- “Enjoy the little things in life … for one day, you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
- “A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”
- “You can’t move forward without saying goodbye to the past.”
- “If you follow your dreams, you are capable of anything.”
- “Your future is only as good as the work you put into it.”
- “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”
- “I’ve learned from the bad times and was humbled by the good. Thank you for all of the great life lessons.”
- “Futures don’t make themselves, you have to create them.”
- “When the last bell rings, I might actually miss this place.”
- “I haven’t even begun to peak.” —Dennis Reynolds
- “Don’t live someone else’s dream, find your own.”
- “If you’re reading this, future me, put down this book and do something more productive.”
- “When’s this due?”
- “Nothing in life is impossible as long as you take that first step.”
- “Thanks Mom and Dad! I couldn’t have done it without you!”
- “Don’t assume the answer is no before you ask the question.”
- “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
- “Yesterday is what brought you to today.”
- “Graduation is the first step of the next chapter of your life.”
- “Dear future self, ’Always remember who got you where you are today.’”
- “Thanks for all of the memories. I had the time of my life! Miss you all!”
Senior Year Quotes From Movies
- “All in all you’re just another brick in the wall” – Pink Floyd (used in The Wall)
- “Be specific, more or less” – Monica Geller, Friends
- “For me to say I wasn’t a genius, I’d just be lying to you and myself” – Kanye West (used in a movie/TV context)
- “I’m too sleep deprived for your negativity right now” – B99
- “If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite must be right.” – Jerry Seinfeld
- “It doesn’t do to leave a live dragon out of the equation” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
- “Math test? Oh no, I forgot all about the math test!” – Avatar Aang
- “That’s show biz, baby!” – J. Jacob Rabon IV
- “Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it” – Monica Geller, Friends
- “When thunder roars, God is bowling” – Sensei Wu, Lego Ninjago
- “You had me at ‘hello’.” – Jerry Maguire
Literary Quotes
- “All pizzas are personal if you try hard enough”
- “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all, it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.” – Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Hope is the thing with feathers” (not explicitly mentioned, but implied)
- “A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden
- “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” – Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
- “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.” – Patti Smith, Just Kids
- “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” – Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” – E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
- “Life is the moment we are living now.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “Live in the present, make the most of it, it’s all you’ve got.” – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
- “It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.” – Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
- “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” – L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- “One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
- “I dwell in Possibility.” – Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” – Stephen King, Different Seasons
- “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
- “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- “If you ain’t first, you’re last” – Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights (originally from a literary source)
- “The flow of time is always cruel, but no one can change it…” – Sheik, Ocarina of Time (originally from a literary source)
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