Pump Your Kids up With These Sweet Back-To-School Quotes
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Pump Your Kids up With These Sweet Back-To-School Quotes
There are always so many emotions when it comes to back-to-school season. Excitement is in the air as the kids try on their new clothes and test out their backpacks. And nerves take over parents who are trying to make sure they got every school supply on their assigned list. All the while, teachers are preparing for the year ahead and trying to motivate even the littlest of students.
Sometimes, with all the running around, stress and everything else that late August/early September brings, it can be hard to remember that education is one of the most enlightening experiences we can go through. Let our list of the best back-to-school quotes be the reminder you need. From inspirational sayings about school to funny messages about heading back to class, these quotes will work wonders for students. Parents can sneak one in their kid's lunch box on a piece of paper and teachers can start the day off with an encouraging line to get their pupils pumped.
But don't stop at these quotes. Check out our fall quotes, inspirational sayings and daily affirmations for more inspo!
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1) Arne Duncan
Education is a right, not a privilege; it is an opportunity, not an entitlement.
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2) Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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3) Malcolm X
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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4) Andy McIntyre
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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5) Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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6) Maya Angelou
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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7) George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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8) Langston Hughes
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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9) James Baldwin
The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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10) Kofi Annan
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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12) Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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13) Malala Yousafzai
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
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14) Malcolm Forbes
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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15) Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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16) Virginia Woolf
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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17) Walt Disney
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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18) 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.
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19) Martin Luther King Jr.
Intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education.
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20) Abraham Lincoln
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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21) Josie Bisset
Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.
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22) John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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23) Amy Poehler
Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible.
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24) Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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25) Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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26) Anthony J. D'Angelo
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
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27) Ray LeBlond
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
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28) Brian Herbert
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
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29) Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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30) Oprah Winfrey
Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
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31) Dr. Seuss
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
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32) Leo Buscaglia
Change is the end result of all true learning.
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33) Oscar Wilde
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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34) Marvin Phillips
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
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35) Brigham Young
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
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36) Dana Stewart Scott
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
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37) Audrey Hepburn
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’
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38) George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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39) Walt Disney
There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island.
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40) Joel Edgerton
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
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41) Eleanor Roosevelt
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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42) Hellen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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43) Smiley Blanton
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
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44) Russell M. Nelson
Education is the difference between wishing you could help other people and being able to help them.
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45) Lady Bird Johnson
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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46) Steve Martin
Be so good they can't ignore you.
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47) Lily Tomlin
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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48) Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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49) Milton Berle
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
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50) Thomas A. Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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