Uplifting and Funny Sayings for a Great Year

You’re in your final year of school. Many things are coming to an end soon.

To help you end it on a high note and make it a truly memorable year, I want to share the top 35 senior quotes with you.

These quotes offer uplifting and motivational wisdom to help you finish strong and feel less anxious about the new chapter that awaits you.

They also include funny sayings to bring some joy to your present moment and provide inspiration for what to write in your yearbook.

Inspiring and Iconic Senior Quotes

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter Drucker

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.”
– Emma Watson

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.”
– Michelle Obama

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
– Dr. Seuss

“In your life, you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn’t know it at fifteen.”
– Taylor Swift

“Don’t compare yourself with anyone else in the world. If you do so you are insulting yourself.”
– Bill Gates

“I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.”
– Emma Stone

“The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.”
– Jon Stewart

Funny Senior Quotes for the Yearbook

“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.”
– Alfred Adler

“Goodbye everyone. I’ll remember you all in therapy.”
– Plankton (from SpongeBob)

“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

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
– W.C. Fields

“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you.”
– Stephanie Flores

“If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
– Alexandra Vu

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

Baddie Senior Quotes

“I want to thank me for believing in me”
– Snoop Dogg

“Flaws? Honey, it’s called character.”
– Unknown

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel

“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
– Zoey Sayward

“I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me.”
– Dwight Schrute (from The Office)

“I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will.”
– Amy Schumer

“I’m not looking for a knight, I’m looking for a sword.”
– Rihanna

Short, Wise and Uplifting Senior Quotes

“Life’s too short to take too serious.”
– Mary Engelbreit

“Oh, the places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss

“There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.”
– Jennifer Aniston

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean

“Long story short, I survived.”
– Taylor Swift

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Søren Kierkegaard

“It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.”
– Henrietta Mears

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.”
– Maya Angelou

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
– Seth Godin

Need more motivation for this semester? Check out these motivational back-to-school quotes and this collection of uplifting fall quotes for a less stressful season.