Short graduation quotes, graduation sayings etc., can really come in handy around graduation time. They can be used in speeches, jotted down as messages in yearbooks, etched onto special keepsakes, etc.

So while the graduation quotes and sayings you'll find here are meant specially for photo books and graduation memory books, they're also a good reference for celebrating your grad's special day in general.

Our Favorite Short Graduation Quotes

Creating a graduation photo memory book, or putting together a custom graduation card? The short graduation quotes below can really help with captions when you are doing your photo memory book.

When you're done here, check out some of our other tips and helps for creating a graduation photo book, including:

Graduation Photo Memory Book

Graduation Photo Book Templates

Inspirational Poems for Graduation

Ready to start creating your graduation photo album? Here are some of our favorite short graduation quotes and or sayings, to get you started.

Put your future in good hands - your own.
~Author Unknown~

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
~Tom Brokaw~

I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
~Author Unknown~

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
~Edward Koch~

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin~

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~e.e. cummings~

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
~Dr. Seuss~

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~Dr. Seuss~

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau~

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
~William Arthur Ward~

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~William Butler Yeats~

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston~

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
~Erma Bombeck~

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle~

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin~

Hitch your wagon to a star.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
~Author Unknown~

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~Judy Garland~

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~Albert Einstein~

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
~Beverly Sills~

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~David Lloyd George~

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell~

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Francis Bacon~Essays, 1625

All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.
~Walt Disney~

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
~Nelson Mandela~

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
~William Arthur Ward~

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~Albert Einstein~

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