Meaningful Senior Quotes for Boys Today
Senior quotes for boys have one job: still sound good when he flips open the yearbook at his 20th reunion. This list has funny ones, sports ones, movie lines and a few that might make his mom tear up at graduation.
Famous lines are credited, lines that float around online are marked as popular sayings, and a handful are our own. Want more ideas for the card or the party sign? Browse our inspirational quotes and sayings.
Have him read a few out loud. The right one usually makes him grin.
Quick Picks: Senior Quotes for Boys
Five that work for almost any guy.
- “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” (Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986)
- “Remember who you are.” (Mufasa, The Lion King, 1994)
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring)
- “Just getting started.” (popular saying)
- “Created my masterpiece. Now it’s time for the sequel.”
The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying.
Funny Senior Quotes for Boys
For the class clown, and for the kid who only pretends not to be one.
Media day legend
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Marshawn Lynch, Super Bowl Media Day, 2015
- “I spent 113,880 hours becoming this awesome.” (popular saying)
- “I’ll be back.” (Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Terminator, 1984)
- “My attendance here was sponsored by my mom’s coffee.”
- “My backup plan has a backup plan.”
- “Player 1 has completed the tutorial level.”
- “No rage quits, only respawns.”
The 113,880 hours line works out to about 13 years of school days. The last four are original 3BoysAndADog sayings.
Inspirational Senior Quotes for Boys
For the guy heading off to college, the military, a trade or a first real job.
- “I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” (Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken,” 1916)
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” (Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring)
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” (popular short version of a line from Henry David Thoreau, Walden)
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” (often credited to Eleanor Roosevelt)
- “Left my comfort zone so long ago, I forgot where it was.”
Big screen
“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
Maximus, Gladiator, 2000
The Eleanor Roosevelt line has never been found in her own writing, so it is labeled often credited. The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying.
Senior Quotes for Athletes
For the guy who spent more Friday nights on the field than at home.
Locker room
“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan, Nike “Failure” commercial, 1997
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” (attributed to Billie Jean King)
- “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” (often credited to Sir Edmund Hillary)
- “Leave it all on the field.” (popular saying)
- “Started in the bleachers, finished on the field.”
- “Four years of practice for this one picture.”
The last two are original 3BoysAndADog sayings.
Senior Quotes for Leaders and Independent Thinkers
For the team captain, the debate kid and the one who never followed the crowd.
- “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” (Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” (often credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- “Leadership isn’t about being the best. It’s about making everyone else better.”
- “I wrote my own story instead of following the script.”
- “Plot twist: being yourself actually works.”
- “Silence is comfortable, but my voice matters more.”
No one has found the Emerson line in his essays, so it is labeled often credited. The last four are original 3BoysAndADog sayings.
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Senior Quotes About Friends and Family
For the crew that ate every snack in your pantry.
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” (often credited to A.A. Milne, but not found in the Winnie-the-Pooh books)
- “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” (attributed to Elbert Hubbard)
- “Some friends are actually family in disguise.”
- “Success is sweeter when your squad helps you earn it.”
- “Thanks, Mom. I know you’re crying right now.”
The last three are original 3BoysAndADog sayings.
Short Senior Quotes for Boys
For a yearbook with a tight character limit.
- “To infinity and beyond!” (Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story, 1995)
- “Watch me.” (popular saying)
- “Challenge accepted.” (popular saying)
- “Still figuring it out.” (popular saying)
- “Done my way.”
The last one is an original 3BoysAndADog saying.
How to Pick a Senior Quote
A few checks before he sends it to the yearbook staff.
- Ask about the limit: Many schools cap senior quotes at a set number of characters.
- Check the rules: Most yearbooks reject quotes with inside jokes, initials or anything that could read as mean.
- Say it out loud: If it sounds good spoken, it will look good printed.
- Picture him at 30: Funny is great. Funny he will regret is not.
- Credit the source: If someone famous said it, put their name after it.
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