Category: back to school

Are you preparing for back-to-school time, events, and schedules? Do you want to inspire your kids or classroom with back-to-school quotes? The right words leave an impact. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following back-to-school quotes.

1. “School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.” – Winifred C. Marshall
2. “Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen.” — Conan O’Brien
3. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
4. “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – Thomas Huxley
5. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela
6. “You learn something new every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond
7. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” — Oprah Winfrey
9. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
10. “Education is the passport to the future for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
11. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” — Lily Tomlin
12. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
13. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
14. “Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai
15. “The first day of school is always like a fashion show. The rest of the year a pajama party.” – Unknown
16. “I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.” — Jenny Han
17. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford
18. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
19. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
20. “Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.” – Dr. Jill Biden
21. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre
22. “Is it just me or did mom seem a little bit too happy about the first day of school?” – Unknown
23. “The more that you read, the more that you know, the more places you will go.” – Dr. Seuss
24. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” – Helen Keller
25. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
26. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller
27. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
28. “Motivation is what get you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun
29. “Don’t try hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try hard to be different…just try hard to be you.” – Zendaya
30. “Intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education.” –  Martin Luther King Jr.
31. “The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.” – Marvin Phillips
32. “School is a lot like toilet paper. You only miss it when it’s gone.” – Unknown
33. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker
34. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
35. “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
36. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
37. “Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.” – Josie Bisset
38. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
39. “Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
40. “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
41. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
42. “A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” – Smiley Blanton
43. “In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.” – Harry Wong
44. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
45. “Respect your parents, they passed school without Google.” – Unknown
46. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
47. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
48. “Learning today, leading tomorrow.” – Unknown
49. “Education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein
50. “The greatest gift we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Maria Montessori
51. “Attention, only positive attitude allowed in this area.” – Unknown
52. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else.” – Henry Ward Beecher
53. “Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.” – Unknown
54. “Know this you can start over every morning.” – Unknown
55. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
56. “A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clear and anything can happen.” – Denise Witmer
57. “You know it is time to go back to school, when your parents are singing: “It is the most wonderful time of the year.” – Unknown
58. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead

Have a fantastic school year!