65 Best Funny Graduation Quotes for All of Your Instagram-Worthy Photos

Maybe you want to make a difference by serving in government. Maybe you want to launch your own television show. Or maybe you simply want to collect some change. Your parents would appreciate that about now.

There's a saying that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. At Apple, I learned that's a total crock. You'll work harder than you ever thought possible, but the tools will feel light in your hands.

Travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild jungle rivers (after first having it tested for monkey poop)—but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

Parents, write this down: Many of you haven’t seen your children in four years. Now you are about to see them every day when they come out of the basement to tell you the WiFi isn’t working.

Don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

This is a great, great day for you. Except for those of you leaving college with any student loan debt. I don’t know what to say to you. I’m sorry. I hope you win the lottery. I don’t know what to tell you about that.

Most of your post-college life is simply filling out forms. Car insurance, health insurance, W-2s. W-4s, 1099s. Guess what? None of us know what any of those forms mean, but you will fill out a hundred of them before you die.

You may feel some creative energy coursing through your body. Don't ignore it. If you feel the urge to create and discover and to do something that will bring you fulfillment and happiness, do it now while you're young. You will never have more energy or enthusiasm, hair, or brain cells than you have today.

If our ancestors didn't feel fear, the whole species probably would have been trampled by mammoths a long time ago. But if they never examined their fears—no delicious mammoth-burgers. And so, success lies in the tension between fear and discovery.

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.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.

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

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.

If at first you don’t succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Do not take life too seriously — you will never get out of it alive.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

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

Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open.

Each year at graduation, I am obliged to offer a few “brief remarks,” which are usually not as brief as they should be.