These Sentimental Quotes Are Perfect for Daughters Who Are Graduating This Year
Graduation is one of those milestones that will hit home for both students and their parents. Especially moms and dads who have daughters, because seeing your little girl grow up right before your eyes is truly a bittersweet feeling! Even Ree Drummond can relate to this. "I was crying and my heart felt like it would break into a million pieces," Ree said of her experience dropping Paige off to college for the first time. But when she graduated, she made sure to emphasize that there were "no tears this time— just happiness!" See? It's a feeling that's truly hard to describe. So, when you're somewhat at a loss for words, these graduation quotes made especially for daughters are here to save the day.
These beautiful quotes are just the thing to add to a graduation card, and they're equally meaningful when spoken aloud at the graduation dinner toast. And where else are you going to find a graduation Instagram caption that really speaks to what you're feeling? Take these words from Jennifer Garner, for instance: "Fight for what makes you optimistic about the world. Find it, insist on it, dig into it, go after it." They're practically a graduation gift in their own right. Read on for more inspiring graduation quotes and help your new graduate feel ready to take on the world! If you've got more than one graduation to celebrate this spring, be sure to check out our graduation quotes for sons, too.
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Rascal Flatts, “My Wish”
“My wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to.”
Mark Twain
“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Albert Einstein
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
Alfred Mercier
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
Joseph Addison
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
Michelle Obama
“It is absolutely still possible to make a difference.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.”
Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Nelson Mandela
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”
Ian Brennan
“Be the hardest working person you know. Because if you’re not, someone else will be.”
Oprah
“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go.”
Kristian Kan
“In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.”
Ryan Gosling
“I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Intelligence plus character— that is the goal of true education.”
Selena Gomez
“Success is nothing if you don’t have the right people to share it with; you’re just going to end up lonely.”
Maya Rudolph
“If I must give any of you advice it would be say yes. Say yes, and create your own destiny.”
Janelle Monáe
“I celebrate you as you remember the power of grace and pride, and I challenge you to choose freedom over fear.”
Thomas Edison
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Beverly Sills
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
Tim Fargo
"Your friends will never believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it."
Lady Gaga
“Don’t allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on sunglasses.”
Ellen DeGeneres
"Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path and by all means you should follow that."
Dr. Seuss
“You're off to great places
Today is your day
Your mountain is waiting
Go, get on your way!”
Debbie Millman
"Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now."
Taylor Swift
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
Babe Ruth
"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
Israelmore Ayivor
"You must begin by all means."
Lin-Manuel Miranda
"This act of choosing—the stories we tell versus the stories we leave out—will reverberate across the rest of your life."
Lady Gaga
"You are the seeds that will grow into a new and different forest that is far more beautiful and loving than the one we live in today."
Selena Gomez
"It's okay not to know what to do with the rest of your life."
Maria Shriver
"Before you go out and press that fast forward button, I'm hoping, I'm praying, that you'll have the courage to first press the pause button."
Tim Cook
"Call upon your grit. Try something."
Dalai Lama
"Despite difficulties, always keep optimism."
Tom Hanks
"Your rising from bed every morning will give fear its chance to grow stronger just as it will afford faith its chance to blossom."
Jodie Foster
"Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day, like a photograph coming into focus."
Alicia Keys
"Be unafraid to be completely you, and accept all those other individuals that you meet as they are."
Neil Gaiman
"Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art."
Gabrielle Giffords
"Be bold, be courageous, be your best."
Jennifer Garner
"Fight for what makes you optimistic about the world. Find it, insist on it, dig into it, go after it."
Kerry Washington
"Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential."
Nora Ephron
"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."
Toni Morrison
"From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as already artful, waiting just waiting and ready for you to make it art."
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