96 Iconic Senior Quotes That Make a Statement
Senior year is your time to leave a lasting impression, so we have put together a list of the most iconic senior quotes for your yearbook.
And if you’re looking for short and memorable sayings that will be remembered forever, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Iconic Senior Quotes
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” — Bob Marley
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” — Sigmund Freud
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” — Mother Teresa
“Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.” — H Jackson Brown Jr.
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” — Malala Yousafzai
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — Mark Twain
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Bobby Kennedy
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” — John Wooden
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” — Steven Jobs
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey
Dr. Seuss Classics
“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.” — Dr. Seuss
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“Kid, you’ll move mountains.” — Dr. Seuss
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
Empowerment & Growth
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” — Taylor Swift
“Dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson
“We all have ability, the difference is how we use it.” — Stevie Wonder
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” — Maya Angelou
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King
“Be bold, be courageous, be your best.” — Gabrielle Giffords
Funny Senior Quotes
“I spent 113,880 hours of my life for a paper and a handshake.”
“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 finally learned how to right good.”
“They asked me to write something. So here it is: Something.”
“Some graduate with honors, I am just honored to graduate.”
“The only thing that ever stopped me from being a straight-A student was grades.”
“I spent 13 years in school, but all I got was this lousy diploma.”
“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter.”
“Hannah Montana said nobody’s perfect, but here I am.”
“I did my waiting! 12 years of it! In Azkaban.” — Sirius Black
“Onions have layers.” — Shrek
“Honey! Where is my super suit!!!” — Frozone
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know if you’re gonna graduate.”
“I’m not particularly skilled at giving advice. Would you like a sarcastic remark instead?” — Chandler Bing
“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and hurt you.” — Rick Astley
“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.”
“I’m way cuter in person.”
“If you see me running, things have gone terribly wrong.”
“I started with nothing, and I still have most of it.”
“School is finally over! Now I’m just waiting for my Hogwarts letter.”
“Dear future employers, this was a joke… or was it?”
“#nofilter #girl #senior #TBT #ImOut”
“Don’t follow your dreams, follow me on X at [insert handle].”
“We made it! #YOLO”
“I paused Netflix for this.”
“Game over. Degree unlocked.”
“Now I’m just smart and broke.”
“Donuts are always the answer.”
“Any pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough.”
“Why fall in love when you can fall asleep.”
“If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
“No, Miranda, your senior quote can’t be ‘Fries before guys.'” — Dad
“The roof is not my son, but I will raise it.”
“When life shuts a door, open it back up. That’s how doors work!”
“It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.”
“Can I please stay another year? – said no one.”
“This was so easy a caveman could do it.”
“High School Musical is pretty unrealistic.”
“One day I will rule the world.”
“What can I say about school? I laughed. I cried. My parents tell me it was fun.”
“Thanks, Google.”
“Professional procrastinator. Now with credentials.”
“I skipped naps for this.”
“Zero sleep. One degree.”
“Summa kinda laude.”
“I already forgot everything.”
“Cool cap. Still clueless.”
