36 Funny Graduation Quotes 2023

Elbert Hubbard

"Don't take life too seriously. No one makes it out alive.

Napoleon Hill

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

Theodore Roosevelt

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car. But if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

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Greg Tamblyn

"At graduation you get to wear a cap and gown, but it's a good idea to also wear something underneath it."

John Green

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

Thomas Dewar

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open."

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Erma Bombeck

"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."

Patricia Akins

"Remember, when it comes to applying for jobs, books ARE judged by their cover!"

Gloria Davidson

"Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life."

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Muhammad Ali

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

Stephen Colbert

"Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along."

Jim Carrey

"I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

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Tom & Ray Magliozzi

"You will never have more energy or enthusiasm, hair, or brain cells than you have today."

Aaron Sorkin

"You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets."

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Jon Stewart

"The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective."

Ed Helms

"So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track."

Vidal Sassoon

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

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Al Bernstein

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

Benjamin Franklin

"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."

Leah Hall is currently a digital producer and writer for Country Living. She is based in Huntsville, Alabama. 

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