High school is a magical and special time in your life, you know you will miss your best friends and classmates, even the annoying ones.
Before you left high school you wanna left a good impression behind for your friends to remember you. The yearbook allows you to express yourself. If you’re struggling for ideas, we’ve scoured the web, and put together a collection of the best senior quotes to help.
Here’s a collection of the Senior Year Quotes:
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100 All-Time Favorite Senior Year Quotes
1. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville
2. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
3. “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
4. “I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.” – Mike Rowe
5. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
6. “The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.” – Orson Scott Card
7. “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” – Henry Peter Brougham
8. “We’ve arrived because we stuck together, champions one and all.” – Sharpay Evans
9. “The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” – Winston Churchill
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10. “The roof is not my son, but I will raise it.” – Anonymous
11. “Don’t regret the past, just learn from it.” – Ben Ipock
12. “I’m gonna go stand outside. If anyone asks, I’m outstanding.” – Taylor Bass
13. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
14. “Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” – Iain Duncan Smith
15. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
16. “It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” – John Guare
17. “You do have a future. There is light at the end of that inky black tunnel.” – Willow Cross
18. “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” – A Bronx Tale
19. “My head may be big, my eyes may be small, but my heart is just the right size.” – Alan Nguyen
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20. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – George Herman Ruth
21. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller
22. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves!” – Chanakya
23. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
24. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Anonymous
25. “Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?” – Amy Harmon
26. “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
27. “It is absolutely still possible to make a difference.” – Michelle Obama
28. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi
29. “Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.” – Herschel Walker
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30. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
31. “Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it… Err in the direction of kindness.” – George Saunders
32. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
33. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” – Unknown
34. “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” –Unknown
35. “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” – Sigmund Freud
36. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
37. “My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.” – David Copperfield
38. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
39. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
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40. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
41. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
42. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
43. “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” – Tim Burton
44. “Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.” – Mitchel Wieland
45. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
46. “This is nothing but a hive, and I am the one and only Queen Bee.” – Brian A Castle
47. “I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.” – Jim Otto
48. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
49. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
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50. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Anonymous
51. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
52. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Unknown
53. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
54. “The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.” – Neil Gaiman
55. “Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
56. “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” – Anonymous
57. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
58. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
59. “Whenever you remember times gone by, remember how we held our heads so high.” – Carrie Underwood
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60. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill
61. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.” – Pope John Paul II
62. “The past is always tense, the future perfect.” ― Zadie Smith
63. “What you do today will determine your future.” – Catherine Pulsifer
64. “Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!” – Louisa May Alcott
65. “Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.” – Unknown
66. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
67. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
68. “It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.” – Jerry Zucker
69. “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
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70. “I haven’t even begun to peak.” – Dennis Reynolds
71. “The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?” – Steve Schulte
72. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – John Lennon
73. “You don’t destroy what you want to acquire in the future.”― Suzanne Collins
74. “I’m a senior, but I stay freshman.” – Martin Alvarado
75. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
76. “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
77. “Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?” – Vitamin C
78. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
79. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” – Bruce Feirstein
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80. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
81. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
82. “Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.” – Melanie White
83. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
84. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
85. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Theresa
86. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
87. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
88. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
89. “Follow your dreams, they know the way.” – Kobe Yamada
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90. “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cay
91. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. “What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” – Alfred Mercier
93. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
94. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
95. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
96. “It will take a nation of millions to hold me back.” – Timothy Howard
97. “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” – Corrie Ten Boom
98. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
99. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
100. “Keep looking up! Learn from the past, dream about the future, and look up.” – Rachel Boston
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