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)