As the school year comes to an end many students and graduates face a time of reflection, celebration and even confusion. "What's next?" "What should I do?" "Where do I go from here?" I hope these 30 motivational quotes for students will help you become more confident about your dreams and goals, at such an important time in your life!

30 Motivational Quotes for Graduates

1."Success doesn't rush. The greatest reward is the journey!" - Jeff Moore

2."Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill

3."If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts

4."There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." -C.S. Lewis

5."Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." -Steve Jobs

6."Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

7."Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." - Les Brown

8."Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan." - Larry Winget

10."Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi

11."The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln

12."Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

13."All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

14."We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better." - JK Rowling

15."My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you're going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them." - Ruth Westheimer

16."Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do." - Ella Fitzgerald

17."Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." - John Maxwell

18."How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver

20."Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer

21."Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

22."Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point." - Harold B Melchart

23."Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi

24."Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." - Muhammad Ali

25."There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs." - Unknown

26.Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

27.If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

28.So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

30.Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. - Omar Khayyam 

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