55 Inspirational Back-to-School Quotes to Prepare Kids for the First Day
A new school year means buying new school supplies, reconnecting with old friends, and enduring the torture that is homework — or if you’re a parent, trying to help your child with their homework, which let’s be honest, is just as torture-filled. School has its ups and downs. Whether you’re heading back to the land of backpacks and lockers or sending a kid off to a new grade, we’ve gathered back to school quotes, specifically for the occasion.
There are inspirational quotes, short quotes, funny quotes, and more — all with an angle that applies to life at school. So if you’re dreading going back and already counting the days until your next break, read these. We can’t promise they will birth a new love of school, but we’re sure they will make this year’s back to school season at least more bearable.
So until the bittersweet day of graduation and the beginning of a passionate career, these back-to-school quotes will have to suffice. And who knows, you may be pleasantly surprised at how your views of learning, classes, and school change after reading the words of some of the world’s most brilliant minds discuss the topic of education.
Confucius
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Thomas Huxley
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
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Henry Ford
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
J.J. Watt
“What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.”
Shakuntala Devi
“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.”
Elin Nordegren
“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.”
Nora Ephron
“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”
Jill Biden
"Education doesn't just make us smarter — it makes us whole."
Michael Jordan
“No brain, no gain. Stay in school.”
Brian Herbert
“The capacity to learn is a gift. The ability to learn is a skill. The willingness to learn is a choice.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."
Helen Keller
"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."
Jenny Han
"I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings."
Zendaya
"Don't try hard to fit in, and certainly don't try hard to be different... just try hard to be you."
Pelé
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
Malcom X
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Mark Twain
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
Arthur Ashe
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Conan O'Brien
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
Dr. Seuss
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."
Nelson Mandela
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Oprah Winfrey
“Education is the key to unlocking the world — a passport to freedom.”
Malala Yousafzai
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
Emma Watson
"I'm not going to school just for the academics. I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning."
Josie Bissett
"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them."
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Oscar Wilde
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
Marvin Phillips
"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph."
Brigham Young
"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
John Dewey
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
Taylor Swift
"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."
Dr. Seuss
"You're off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!"
Ray LeBlond
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.”
Denise Witmer
“A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clear, and anything can happen.”
Lily Tomlin
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home — to think about besides homework.”
Confucius
“Give a bowl of rice to a man, and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice, and you will save his life.”
Ken Burns
"Be curious, not cool."
Carl Sagan
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Harry Wong
“In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.”
Dana Perino
“It’s one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.”
William G. Spady
“All students can learn and succeed, but not in the same way and not in the same day.”
Ignacio Estrada
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.”
Aristotle
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Kofi Annan
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress. In every society, in every family.”
Harry Wong
“The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.”
E.P. Bertin
“It is not what is poured into the student but what is planted that counts.”
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