Senior year has begun.
It’s a fun and exciting time. But also sometimes a bittersweet time in life.
To help you make the most out of it and give you ideas for memorable sayings for your yearbook and Instagram I’d like to share 101 of the most meaningful, hilarious, inspirational and iconic short senior quotes.
Ones that will make you laugh and help your friends remember you as you were when they look at your yearbook page years from now. Ones that will help you when school or life feels tough or overwhelming.
And ones that will give you and your best friends a boost of postivity and new energy.
Short and Iconic Senior Quotes for the Yearbook
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs
“Long story short, I survived.”
– Taylor Swift
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
– Dr. Seuss
“It’s not your job to be likable. It’s your job to be yourself.”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius
“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.”
– Alfred Adler
“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
– W.C. Fields
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
– Terry Pratchett
“I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man.”
– Jay-Z
“Life’s too mysterious to take too serious.”
– Mary Engelbreit
“Be so good that they can’t ignore you.”
– Steve Martin
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde
“That’s hot.”
– Paris Hilton
“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and hurt you.”
– Rick Astley
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare
Short and Inspirational Senior Year Quotes
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
– Kyle Chandler
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
– Dr. Seuss
“I’m not looking for a knight, I’m looking for a sword.”
– Rihanna
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller
“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”
– Nora Ephron
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
– Alfred Mercier
“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
– Edward Koch
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean
“I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will.”
– Amy Schumer
“Anything is possible. Don’t allow anybody to project any stereotypes on you.”
– Doechii
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.”
– Maya Angelou
“The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin
Cute, Short and Funny Senior Quotes Ideas
“My computer screen is brighter than my future.”
– Katia Perez
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
– Ankit Jain
“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter.”
– Hugh Vo
“If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
– Alexandra Vu
“I want to thank me for believing in me.”
– Snoop Dogg
“Remember… The more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe… Eat cake.”
– Iyanna Morgan
“Ravioli, ravioli, give me the diplomioli.”
– Maximiliano Navarro
“It’s so hard being a single mom when you have no kids and are a male teenager.”
– Aaron
“Hannah Montana said nobody’s perfect, but here I am.”
– Alexander Gouon
“Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.”
– Unknown
“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you.”
– Stephanie Flores
“The ‘s’ is silent.”
– Pareekshit Ravi
“I am that Nigerian prince that keeps emailing you.”
– Segun Akigbogun
“Of course I dress well. I didn’t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.”
– Ian Longley
“I’ve been a Ho all my life.”
– Michelle Ho
“WE ARE NOT RELATED.”
– The Nguyens
“Why fall in love when you can fall asleep.”
– Jessica Enciso
“Always got them Girl Scout cookies, but I’m not no Girl Scout.”
– Unknown
“My stummy hurt.”
– Playboi Carti
“I used to be a straight A student, now I’m not even straight.”
– Martin Sanchez
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx
“I finally learned how to right good.”
– Unknown
“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.”
– Unknown
Motivational and Short Senior Quotes for Graduation from High School
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
– George Carlin
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
– Stephen King
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden
“I’ve learned from the bad times and was humbled by the good.”
– Unknown
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
– Walt Disney
“If I can graduate with over 150 absences throughout high school, you can too.”
– Natalie Turk
“The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.”
– Shannon L. Alder
“Character is a course, finish it.”
– Mac Canoza
“Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.”
– Mitchell Wieland
“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
– Richard Halliburton
“You won’t be able to do this ten years from now – just leave everything behind and go.”
– Rachel Kapelke-Dale
“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself.”
– Michelle Obama
“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”
– Henny Youngman
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
– Gloria Steinem
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
– Frank Clark
“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
– Al Bernstein
“I’m not sure what the future holds, but I do know that I’m going to be positive.”
– Bill Murray
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
Short Senior Quotes from Movies and TV-shows
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
– The Narrator (Fight Club)
“When I’m sad, I stop being sad, and just be awesome instead. True story.”
– Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
“Goodbye everyone! I’ll remember you all in therapy.”
– Plankton (SpongeBob)
“All my life I’ve had one dream: to achieve my many goals.”
– Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
“I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me.”
– Dwight Schrute (The Office)
“I’m in a glass case of emotion!”
– Ron Burgundy (Anchorman)
“You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish.”
– Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
“If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.”
– Ace Ventura (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
“Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good.”
– Peter Parker (Avengers: Infinity War)
“If I die, turn my tweets into a book.”
– Gina Linetti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
“Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That’s one of my mottos.”
– Stanley Hudson (The Office)
“Hakuna matata.”
– The Lion King
“I’ll say this to you, my friend: Take it sleazy.”
– Michael (The Good Place)
“Gotta blast!”
– Jimmy Neutron
“I’ve done my waiting! 12 years of it! In Azkaban!”
– Sirius Black (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.”
– Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own)
“I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
– Chandler Bing (Friends)
“‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ – Wayne Gretzky”
– Michael Scott (The Office)
“Were we supposed to have a quote?”
– Ann Paul Veal (Arrested Development)
Want more motivation and inspiration for your senior year and graduation ? Then check out these funny senior quotes for your yearbook, the top 35 senior quotes in this post, the funny graduation quotes here and also these short graduation quotes.