The first day of school is starting for millions of children. Are you looking for back-to-school quotes to add to your social media posts? Or do you want to put an inspiring note in your child’s backpack? If you need inspiration, check out the following quotes for back to school.
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
- “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
- “Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.” – Dr. Jill Biden
- “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre
- “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
- “I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.” – Jenny Hann
- “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” Maya Angelou
- “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky
- “Progress not perfection.” – Kemberly Snyder
- “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.”- Pelé
- “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
- “Motivation is what get you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun
- “Don’t try hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try hard to be different…just try hard to be you.” – Zendaya
- “Intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.” – Josie Bisset
- “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
- “Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “He who opens a school door closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
- “If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.” – Mark Spitz
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
- “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond
Have a great school year!
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