Show Off Your Cap and Gown With These Clever Graduation Instagram Captions
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Summer is just within reach, which means it's almost time for our favorite celebratory period: graduation season! The time of inspiration and growth comes with graduation party foods, graduation gifts, and cute graduation dresses galore. Best of all, you get all of the above at the many graduation parties held throughout the season! With all the partying with pals and snapping of pics in your graduation getup, you're going to have loads of photos. But then comes the hard part: thinking up a cool caption! Why stress yourself out trying to come up with one when you can just check out our list of the best Instagram graduation captions for some inspiration?
Whether or not you have a parent like Ree Drummond, graduation day calls for plenty of tissues. Even though Ree had two girls graduate before Bryce, she couldn't believe how the years had flown by when her eldest boy graduated high school early. "This is happening, friends... and it's happening fast! Excuse me while I go cry for nine thousand years," she said. All jokes aside, the sentiment is real!
Graduation can be a proud, funny, and emotional time not only for the graduates but for everyone around them—particularly, if they're the first person in the family to obtain that degree. Ahead, we've rounded up cute and funny captions and inspiring graduation quotes for all your graduation memories.
Inspirational Graduation Captions
And so it begins...
Now, everything awaits me.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Savor the moment.
When you lean into your passions, you can't go wrong.
Every end has a new beginning.
If it excited you and scares you at the same time, it probably means you should do it.
One step closer.
Today, our dreams become reality.
It's bittersweet seeing all my hard work pay off right before my eyes.
I believed I could... so I did.
This is only the beginning of everything you want.
The world is your oyster.
No goodbyes... just see you laters!
Lean in to your passions.
There’s no need to try to fit in, when you were born to stand out.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Follow your fear.
Be bold. Be courageous. Be your best.
They say to take pride in how far we’ve come, but we should also enjoy the journey.
There are far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.
Failure is an inevitable step toward success. Now, I'm ready to go make some mistakes.
All paths are different, and I'm excited to see where this crazy life takes me.
May your cap fly as high as your dreams.
It's time to plant the seeds of hope and a new, brighter future.
Funny Graduation Captions
One degree hotter.
Done with this BS (Bachelor of Science.)
Officially too cool for school.
No blood, not a lot of sweat, but there were definitely some tears!
The most expensive piece of paper ever.
I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste.
Class dismissed!
Beauty and brains!
I'd like to thank my mom, dad, and coffee.
That's all, folks.
Don't give up on your dreams! Keep sleeping.
How did I get the diploma? That's a secret I’ll never tell—XOXO Gossip Girl
Finally free!
I did it! Now somebody hire me, please?
I'm not a student anymore, but can I still get a discount?
Goodbye textbooks, hello real world.
From all-nighters to early mornings, I survived!
Who knew a degree in procrastination could take you so far!
I didn't come this far to only come this far.
I'm not saying I'm the best, but I'm pretty darn good. Congrats to the class of (insert class year)
Even C students can become presidents, so watch out world!
I heard the next chapter gets really good. Too bad I'm done reading for a while!
Time to walk across the stage in my weird little hat and wizard robe unto the future.
I got the skills to pay the bills.
Good things come to those who wait get it done.
This is my fancy piece of paper so I can finally earn some green paper.
Graduate: (N.) A person who now has carpel tunnel from note taking.
I mean, finally!
Some graduate with honors, I am just honored to graduate.
This tassel was worth the hassle.
Very proud, but very tired. Can I take a nap now?
Let me put that "hire me" sign on my front lawn now.
Cute Graduation Captions
And just like that...
A love letter to [name of school.]
One door closes, another one opens.
Cap. Gown. It's going down.
Next stop? The future.
Adventure awaits and I'm packed.
ConGRADS!
I guess I'm all grown up now?
Best people. Best place.
My journey as a student may be over, but my journey as a learner has just begun.
School's out for summer, let the adventures begin!
Feeling blessed I got to spend these years with the sweetest, smartest people I know!
Graduating with honors and a whole lot of memories!
Dream the impossible. Live the improbable.
Thank you, Mom and Dad, for your unwavering support
Onward and upward!
Dream big, work hard, and anything is possible!
Couldn't have done it without all my favorite people. Cheers to my fellow graduates!
Here's to the girls/guys who got me through all those late-night study sessions!
Behind me, all my memories. Before me, all my dreams.
Hat hair don't care!
To new beginnings.
Oh, the places we'll go.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but dream.
Remember, graduation is not the end. It's the beginning.
School's out forever!
I couldn't have done this without my number one fans: Mom and Dad.
Still processing the last few years, but for now, there's just this: Joy and the warm memory of a singular community.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Graduation Captions Inspired by Quotes
"Did everyone see that? Because I will not be doing it again." —Pirates of the Caribbean
"Mischief Managed." —Harry Potter
"What, like it's hard?" —Legally Blonde
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." —Abraham Lincoln
"Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now." —Debbie Millman
"It's okay not to know what to do with the rest of your life." —Selena Gomez
"Fight for what makes you optimistic about the world. Find it, insist on it, dig into it, go after it." —Jennifer Garner
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." —Henry David Thoreau
"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead." —Nora Ephron
"Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You've got to take risks." —Denzel Washington
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors." —Louisa May Alcott
"Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education." —Martin Luther King Jr.
"There may be days when you’ll say to yourself, ‘I can’t. I literally can’t even.’ But you can! You can even!" —Katie Couric
“There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” —Jennifer Aniston
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” —John Dewey
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” —B.B. King
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." —Oscar Wilde
"How lucky I am to have something, that makes saying goodbye so hard." —Winnie-the-Pooh
"Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you've had, what you've lost, and what you've taken for granted." —Ritu Ghatourey
"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing." —Oscar Wilde
Graduation Captions Inspired by Song Lyrics
"Thank U, Next." — Ariana Grande
"Started from the bottom, now we're here" — Drake
"Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this." — Kelly Clarkson, "A Moment Like This"
"There's a time for joy. A time for tears. A time we'll treasure through the years. We'll remember always graduation day." —The Beach Boys
"These memories are playing like a film without sound." —Vitamin C
“We don't know where we're going, but we know where we belong.” —Harry Styles
"School's out for summer. School's out forever." —Alice Cooper
“There's a million things I haven't done, but just you wait.” —Hamilton
"I was here. I lived, I loved. I was here." —Beyoncé
“Hold on to the memories, they will hold on to you.” — Taylor Swift
“Bye, bye, bye!” —NSYNC
“There ain't nothing gonna stop me now.” —The Princess and the Frog
“Time for me to fly.” —Jonas Brothers
“What was once in the windshield, is now in my rear view” —Jonathan McReynolds
“And this is the part where you find out who you are.” — The Maine
“There’s just no telling how far I’ll go.” —Moana
“The best is yet to come.” —Frank Sinatra
"Ain't about how fast I get there, ain't about what's waiting on the other side. It's the climb." —Miley Cyrus
"My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to. Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small. You never need to carry more than you can hold. And while you're out there getting where you're getting to, I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too. Yeah, this is my wish." —Rascal Flatts
"So just think of your future, think of a new life, don't get lost in the memories, keep your eyes on a new prize." —Paramore
"It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. I hope you had the time of your life." —Green Day
"Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten." —Natasha Bedingfield
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