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!

Education is a right, not a privilege; it is an opportunity, not an entitlement.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

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.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

Intelligence plus character — that is the true goal of education.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible.

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.

Education is the difference between wishing you could help other people and being able to help them.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.