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If you thought that the twilight years were the beginning of the end, then you have clearly been listening to the wrong people. Far from being a time to commiserate, the senior years are an awesome chance to start all over again, and achieve the things you never thought you would.
Making the most of the experience that decades can bring, these senior quotes will fill you with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility, and will spur you on to reach the (un)reachable. Encouraging you to grab every opportunity, these thoughts and phrases from the people who have been there and done that will inspire you to go there and do that, and to never waste a moment again.
Contemplate Babe Ruth’s take on the fear of failure and check out what the Dalai Lama has to say on the sheer luck of sometimes not getting what you want, and start applying that logic to your own life. With more than 80 senior quotes for you to peruse, this list of yearbook quotes is your ticket to the most exciting journey you will ever take.
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Senior Quotes for the Most Memorable Yearbook Ever
“It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.” – Jerry Zucker
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II
“Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.” – Ellen DeGeneres
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“In a world full of spectators, be the player.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
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“Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” – Ryan Allis
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden
“You don’t destroy what you want to acquire in the future.” – Suzanne Collins
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.” – Naval Ravikant
“A very interesting theory makes no sense at all.” – Groucho Marx
“My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to, your dreams stay big, your worries stay small.” – Rascal Flatts
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – George Herman Ruth
“It will be the toughest thing you’ll ever do, but your heart is never wrong.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” – John Guare
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
“The limit does not exist.” – Cady, “Mean Girls”
“Cheaters never win, but I just graduated.” – Richard Gilot
“Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.” – Will Smith
“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.” – Grace Coddington
“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.” – Anna Quindlen
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” – Baruch Spinoza
“Life isn’t how to survive the storm; it’s about how to dance in the rain.” – Taylor Swift
“And this is the part where you find out who you are.” – The Maine, “Whoever She Is.”
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross
“Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.” – Walter Lippman
“Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.” – Neil Gaiman
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright
“It will take a nation of millions to hold me back.” – Timothy Howard
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese
“Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?” – Amy Harmon
“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
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller
“Realize, rise and act – make mistakes, fall hard, then rise again and try again.” – Abhijit Naskar
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.” – Jeff Foxworthy
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
“Openness isn’t the end. It’s the beginning.” – Margaret Heffernan
“It’s my last first day and I couldn’t be more excited!” – Unknown
“It wasn’t until my senior year in high school that I started acting.” – Steve Buscemi
“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.” – Richard Halliburton
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
“All through my senior year, luckily, I didn’t have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.” – Brendon Urie
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” – Baltasa
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
“Every next level of your life will demand a different you.” – Unknown
“From error to error one discovers the entire truth.” – Sigmund Freud
“Big pay and little responsibility are circ*mstances seldom found together.” – Napoleon Hill
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” – Philippos
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
“The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” – Steve Schulte
“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished— If you’re alive it isn’t.” – Richard Bach
“I haven’t even begun to peak.” – Dennis Reynolds
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
“I don’t walk away from things I think are unfinished.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” – Maya Angelou
“By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.” – Shane West
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
“Hold the vision, trust the process.” – Unknown
“You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.” – Diana Ross
“Your certification is in your degree. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.” – Tom Brokaw
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan
“Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you might miss it.” – Ferris Bueller
“If you’re reading this, it’s my senior year.” – Unknown
“You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.” – Jim Carrey
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“Senior year is supposed to be about being mentally done.” – Jon Stewart
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok
“Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.” – Stephen Covey
“Follow your passion because you are into it not because others are doing it.” – H.Preet
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
“I’ve learned to say here when the teacher hesitates while taking attendance.” – Omotola Omotinugbon
“I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: ‘You look really tired.’ This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.” – Cecily von Ziegesar
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Reba McEntire
“If you’re seeing this quote in the yearbook, I got all four math credits. Trust me, that means you can too.” – Gabriela Willis
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
“It is absolutely still possible to make a difference.” – Michelle Obama
“It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.” – Henrietta Mears
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
“You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Don’t regret the past, just learn from it.” – Ben Ipock
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.” – Dick Costolo
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” – T. Harv Eker
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” – David Allen
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“Don’t blink, life goes faster than you think.” – ”Don’t Blink”, Kenny Chesney
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
“Invest in yourself. Become the best you can possibly be.” – William Scaec
“Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.” – Melanie White
“Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.” – Mitchel Wieland
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” – Gerald Good
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.” – Bernard M. Baruch
“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself.” – Mary J. Blige
“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“Don’t follow your dreams… Follow my twitter: @nerojordan.” – Jordan Nero
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Theresa
“Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada
“Whenever you remember times gone by, remember how we held our heads so high.” – Carrie Underwood
“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you.” – Stephanie Flores
“You do have a future. There is light at the end of that inky black tunnel.” – Willow Cross
“You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone.” – Anna Kendrick
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” – Margaret Atwood
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” – Tim Burton
“It may be that those who do most, dream most.” – Stephen Butler Leaco*ck
“I’ve been a Ho all my life.” – Michelle Ho
“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” – Tom Bradley
“This is nothing but a hive, and I am the one and only Queen Bee.” – Brian A Castle
“You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.” – Maya Angelou
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Unknown
“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.” – Alexandre Dumas
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson
“Stay focused, go after your dreams, and keep moving towards your goals.” – LL Cool J
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson
“If you’re going into your senior year of high school, it’s going to go faster than you think. And you’re going to wish it went slower.” – Unknown
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“What you do today will determine your future.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
“Little by little, one travels far.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” – Marcia Wieder
“Paths are made by walking.” – Franz Kafka
“Does this smile make me look like a senior?” – Unknown
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
“Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.” – Gary Trudeau
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” – Brian Tracy
“Senior year is supposed to be a blast-easy and fun. So far it’s been anything but.” – Simone Elkeles
“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.” – Orson Scott Card
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde
“Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.” – Gary Hopkins
More Good Quotes for Yearbooks:
“I had to put my grades up for adoption because I couldn’t raise them.” – Irfan Imthias
“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” – Ella Woodward
“Aspire to inspire before we expire.” – Eugene Bell Jr.
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” – Lord Byron
“The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don’t do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.” – Russell Baker
“Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.” – Orrin Hatch
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.” – Seth Godin
“If you’re willing to bleed a little every day, you may win big later.” – Naval Ravikant
“I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.” – Mike Rowe
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
