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Celebration Quotes for Birthdays & Congratulations

Every celebration message starts to sound the same. A great quote sets yours apart. Here are 100 free quotes for birthdays, graduations and every kind of good news — copy one for a card, or use it to open a congratulations letter.

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Why congratulations messages all sound the same

Celebration writing is the most formulaic category there is, because the occasions are public and the expected phrases are well established. "So proud of you" and "you deserve it" are true and completely interchangeable, which is why nobody remembers receiving them. A quote helps you open somewhere less worn.

Name the work, not the outcome

The reliable move in any congratulations letter is to praise the part nobody else saw. Everyone will mention the graduation, the promotion, the win. Almost nobody will mention the two years before it, the version where it nearly did not happen, or the specific thing you watched them give up. That is the paragraph they will re-read.

Cards get thrown away; letters do not

The signed card is the default and it has a lifespan of about a fortnight. A short letter attached to the same occasion tends to survive house moves. If the milestone is genuinely significant, it is worth the extra fifteen minutes — our congratulations letter templates give you a structure to start from.

100 celebration quotes

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“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

— A.A. Milne

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“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

— Cesare Pavese

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“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

— John Glenn

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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

— John Lennon

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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Brault

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“Retire from work, but not from life.”

— M.K. Soni

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“The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.”

— E. Joseph Cossman

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“Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast.”

— Corita Kent

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“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

— Arthur Ashe

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“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”

— George Harrison

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“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”

— Paul Sweeney

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“A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.”

— Unknown

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“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!”

— Dr. Seuss

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“Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's heaven on earth.”

— Unknown

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

— Mark Twain

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“May you live all the days of your life.”

— Jonathan Swift

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“Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.”

— Orrin Hatch

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“Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.”

— Charles Dickens

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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

— Dalai Lama

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“Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God.”

— Larry Barretto

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“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”

— Plautus

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“The manner in which we celebrate reveals what we truly value.”

— Unknown

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“The best is yet to come.”

— Frank Sinatra

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“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

— Unknown

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“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

— Tom Peters

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“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

— Albert Einstein

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“Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!”

— Unknown

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“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

— A.A. Milne

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“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”

— Sammy Hagar

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“The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.”

— Helen Mirren

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“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”

— Malcolm Forbes

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“A milestone is less about the destination and more about the journey that brought you here.”

— Unknown

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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

— Robert Browning

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“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

— Walt Disney

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“May the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows.”

— Unknown

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“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”

— Unknown

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“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.”

— Walt Disney

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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

— Lucille Ball

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!”

— Dom Perignon

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“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

— Emily Dickinson

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“Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.”

— Unknown

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“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain

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“Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.”

— Osho

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“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

— Henry Ford

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“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.”

— Walt Disney

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“Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.”

— Ruth Ann Schabacker

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“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”

— Reba McEntire

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“Cheers to the nights we will never forget and the friends we will never remember them without.”

— Unknown

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“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”

— Jules Renard

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“Congratulations are in order, but so is a reminder: the best is yet to come.”

— Unknown

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“The tassel was worth the hassle.”

— Unknown

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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama

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“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”

— Carl Sandburg

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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

— C.S. Lewis

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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

— Unknown

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“Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.”

— Amit Ray

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“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

— John Lennon

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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

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“Life is a party. Dress for it.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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“Happiness is only real when shared.”

— Christopher McCandless

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“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”

— Sarah Louise Delany

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“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

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“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: the same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.”

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”

— Lawrence Block

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“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”

— Les Brown

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

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“Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you.”

— Unknown

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

— Linda Grayson

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“Don't just count your years, make your years count.”

— George Meredith

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“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”

— Nora Ephron

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“In victory, you deserve Champagne. In defeat you need it.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

— Karl Barth

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“A new baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.”

— Eda LeShan

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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

— Mark Twain

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“A party without cake is just a meeting.”

— Julia Child

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“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

— Dr. Seuss

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“The more you celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Unknown

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

— Unknown

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

— Dr. Seuss

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“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.”

— Napoleon Hill

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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

— Seneca

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“Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.”

— Unknown

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“Where there is love there is life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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“Great things never came from comfort zones.”

— Unknown

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“Celebrate the small wins; they add up to big victories.”

— Unknown

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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Bronte

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