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30 Yearbook Quotes for Your School Leavers

Updated: May 16, 2022

Struggling to fill those blank pages in your Yearbook? Or perhaps you’re fed up of scrolling the internet looking for inspirational, poignant, or just funny quotes to say to your leavers? No matter you’re reason, we thought we’d do the heavy-lifting for you. See below for our 30 perfect yearbook quotes or sayings that would be perfect to put into your leaver’s Yearbook.


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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

– Douglas Adam

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

– Dr. Seuss


Everything you can imagine is real.”

– Pablo Picasso


Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

– George Bernard Shaw


Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

– Albert Einstein



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

– Mark Twain


The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”

– Carl Jung



The best dreams happen when you’re awake.”

– Cherie Gilderbloom


Never give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about.”

– Anonymous


Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”

– Marie Curie


I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

– Michael Jordan


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


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

– Henry David Thoreau


Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

– Theodore Roosevelt


Life in not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

– Maya Angelou


A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

– Albert Einstein


You become what you believe.”

– Oprah Winfrey


The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

– Chinese Proverb


Dream big and dare to fail.”

– Norman Vaughan


The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

– Ayn Rand


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


The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

– Albert Einstein


It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

– Abraham Lincoln


However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do to succeed at.”

– Stephen Hawking


It’s our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

– J.K. Rowling


If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.”

– Beyoncé




"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

– Lao Tzu


Quotes are a wonderful way to fill pages of your Yearbook or to add next to photographs or signature pages. If you have any inspirational quotes of your own, let us know and we will add it to the list. You can copy and paste these quotes directly into your Yearbook, using our free online designer. Take a look at our Yearbook page to find out more.


If you would like to make a Yearbook, make sure you book your space on our Yearbook project to secure your delivery dates. If you’re looking for more inspiration as to how fill your Yearbook pages, keep an eye on this space as we will be putting together some more content especially for you.


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