57 Iconic Yearbook Quotes for Seniors
Picking a senior quote is harder than it looks.
You get one line, it goes in print next to your photo, and it either needs to mean something or get a laugh. This list has both.
The first half has inspirational quotes from people like Steve Jobs, Maya Angelou, and Nelson Mandela, and the second half is funny senior quotes that have been going around for years.
Pick the one that sounds most like you.
Inspirational Iconic Yearbook Quotes
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — Nora Ephron
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
“Be the best of whatever you are.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — J.K. Rowling
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Oliver Goldsmith
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” — Sydney J. Harris
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” — Nelson Mandela
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou
“When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.” — Adlai Stevenson
“We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” — Carol Burnett
“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” — John Adams
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” — Bil Keane
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African Proverb
Funny yearbook Quotes
“Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.”
“Life’s like a sandwich, no matter which way you flip it, the bread comes first.”
“Bruh, we graduated just to go to school again.”
“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter.”
“I spent 113,880 hours of my life for a paper and a handshake.”
“Don’t follow your dreams! Follow my Instagram.”
“It’s never too early for ice cream.”
“If I can handle people from this school, I can handle anything in life.”
“Do I have to wait for the bell to walk the stage too?”
“There’s 101 Dalmatians, including me.”
“Still looking for the best 4 years of my life.”
“Be the bigger person, first of all I’m 4’8”.”
“I love me a good pancake.”
“Don’t let your food get cold watching someone else’s plate.”
“When I count my mistakes, I’ll make sure to count this one too.”
“The next quote is a lie.”
“The previous quote is telling the truth.”
“Gahh, I can’t figure out what my quote is going to be.”
“Me neither. It’s ok.”
“The guy to the right was adopted.”
“In bed: sleeps for 5 minutes, 20 minutes pass. At school: sleeps for 5 minutes, 1 minute passes.”
