Graduation Greetings
The graduation invite arrives in mid-May. Your neighbor’s kid is graduating from high school and has plans to attend a prestigious university in a neighboring state.
Grad parties are always fun. Good food, lots of friends and neighbors usually show up, and everyone is festive. And the graduate is a good kid.
You decide that no college-kid-to-be ever has enough money, so the graduation gift decision is easy. You buy a card, sit down to write a touching message, and then enclose the cash.
Graduation Greeting Ideas
Then you realize you’ve got nothing to say. Congratulations are in order, but the card’s interior already has that written on it.
Do you just sign your names? Boring. You need some good ideas on what to write in graduation cards.
We can help.
Here are some of our favorites.
Discover our How to Write a Graduation Card Guide.
Funny Graduation Card Messages
1.) Congrats on getting through the easy part of life!
Discover college graduation – paragraphs of congratulations.
2.) May your great college memories last longer than your student loan payments.
3.) Our deepest condolences on the end of your school life.
4.) Call it graduation, call it commencement, or in your case, call it a MIRACLE!
5.) They say school is like toilet paper – you only miss it when it’s gone.
6.) Graduation = Smart people wearing stupid hats.
7.) “No Child Left Behind” really does work! JK… Congratulations Smarty-Pants!
8.) Just think. Now, you can add some initials after your name on any official publications. Congrats!
9.) Respect your elders. We graduated without Wikipedia.
10.) 4 years, 3 books, and 210 keggers! Congrats!
See High School Graduation Paragraphs.
Happy Graduation Messages
11.) Hats off to the graduate!
12.) Be glad you’re a grad! Congrats!
13.) Just the beginning of success for you. Congrats!
14.) Seize the day, graduate!
15.) Hard work: check! Good grades: check! Make some money: more checks!
16.) One degree = two happy parents! Congrats!
17.) We’re so excited to share your graduation excitement. Bravo!
18.) May your dreams always be big and your worries small.
19.) Life is to be lived and explored. Make the most of it, Graduate!
20.) This calls for celebrating! Congratulations on your success!
Graduation Wishes
21.) You did it! Wishing you all the best!
22.) Be Awesome!
23.) Keep learning, keep trying, and keep accomplishing.
24.) You did it. Now it’s time to celebrate!
25.) Congratulations and BRAVO!
Great Graduation Quotes
Don’t be afraid to reference a great graduation quotation in your message. Here are some ideas.
26.) All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
27.) If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Andy McIntyre
28.) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
29.) Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Ella Fitzgerald
30.) An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Unknown
31.) Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Garry Trudeau
32.) Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
33.) Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
Oprah Winfrey
Graduation Sayings – What to write in graduation cards
34.) Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma Bombeck
35.) Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36.) If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
Ben Bernanke
37.) It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e.e. cummings
38.) Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
39.) Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo
40.) One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Unknown
41.) Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma Bombeck
42.) Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
Gary Bolding
43.) The unfortunate yet truly exciting thing about your life is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.
John Stewart
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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