Graduation captions, accompanied by good photos, capture an important moment in time. When graduates have made it through their course of studies and passed with flying colors, it’s a time for celebration.
While there are several directions you can take with a caption – serious, congratulatory, funny, and self-deprecating – it’s a great time to recognize an important milestone in life. We can help. Check out these funny graduation captions for Instagram, and make sure you check out the five hysterical captions at the end.
Funny Graduation Captions for Instagram
May your dreams fly higher than your graduation cap.
Congrats on getting through the easy part of life.
High school was so last year.
Graduation: Smart people wearing stupid hats.
Straight outta College!
School is out FOREVER!
Welcome to Full-time Adulting!
Funny Instagram Captions for Graduates – High School and College
Mr. Smarty Pants finally graduated – Big Whoop!
You’ve got the skills to pay the bills!
Is it just me, or is it hotter in here by one degree?
Congrats on getting through the easiest part of life.
OMG — Oh My Grad!
Inspirational Graduation Captions
Go forth and set the world on fire.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Natasha Bedingfield
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
Steve Martin
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. Cummings
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The best is yet to come.
Frank Sinatra
Quotes for Graduation Captions
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Maya Angelou
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
Fred Dehner
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Sarah Brown
If, at first, you don’t succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
Harry Banks
If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
Patch Adams
You will never become a howling success by just howling.
Bob Harrington
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Benjamin Franklin
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
Motivational Graduate Captions
May today hold the promise of many great tomorrows!
Hats off to the graduates!
Proceed with great purpose – but, first, take some time to enjoy!
Spread your wings and fly.
Imagine the possibilities!
Con-grad-ulations!
P.h. Done!
Do epic stuff!
Nowhere to go but everywhere!
Unbelievable Legend.
It’s a reasonable assessment that you absolutely crushed it!
It appears as if we have something to celebrate!
Enjoy the journey!
Congrats Ms. Nerd!
If you’re reading this, you’ve graduated.
I’m not crying; you’re crying.
Without Google and Wikipedia, would we even be celebrating your graduation today?
You can’t get to the top by sitting on your bottom.
Finally!
So fun, so done!
Graduation Instagram Captions
You did it! Now get a job!
What’s up, Doc?
Later suckas, we out!
Beauty, Brains, and a Bachelors degree!
Don’t take life too seriously; nobody makes it out alive.
Loud and Proud!
I graduated… can I go back to bed now?
Don’t stop until you’re proud.
And so, the adventure begins.
Turn the page on the next chapter.
The tassel was worth the hassle.
Put your future in good hands – you own.
Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.
All that stands between a graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
If life is not smiling at you, give it a good tickling.
Proud of my B.S.
Mastered it!
P.H.D.: Piled higher and deeper.
Two small words but a huge amount of gratitude to those who helped me along the way: Thank you!
What feels like the end is often the beginning.
It’s too late to drop out now… I believe I believe I’ll graduate after all.
This is what an adult looks like.
To Infinity and Beyond!
Graduation Captions 2021
Even a global pandemic couldn’t stop you from graduating.
May your great college memories last longer than your student loan payments.
Masks off to the class of 2021!
Let the adulting begin.
Congrats on your Masker’s Degree!
Vaccinated and graduated sounds like a winning combo.
Five Hysterical Graduation Captions
- It’s official: I’m now too cool for school!
- Look Ma, No Hands!
- This wasn’t like High School Musical at all!
- Our condolences on the end of your long school career.
- We had faith you’d barely graduate.
Final Thoughts
That’s all for our collection of funny graduation captions for Instagram. We hope you enjoyed it, and congrats to all graduates.
The most interesting and successful people you’ll come across are lifetime learners. So, take a break, and enjoy your successful completion of this stage of your life. But always be on the lookout for ways to learn and improve yourself.
As Steve Jobs closed his commencement speech with words of advice to Stanford grads, “Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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