Inspiring Back to School Quotes to Kickstart Your Year

Get ready for the new school year with our collection of inspiring quotes! From Dr. Seuss to Eleanor Roosevelt, these words will motivate and uplift you. Dive into this treasure trove of wisdom and find the perfect quote to inspire your journey ahead!

Wisdom from the Masters

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

New Beginnings

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Education

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

Success

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

Belief in Self

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

Education

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

Education

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

Education

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark Van Doren

Education

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

- Brad Henry

Education

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

Inspiration

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Education

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

Education

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

Happiness

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

Aspirations

"You’re off to great places. Today is your day!"

- Dr. Seuss

New Beginnings

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

- John Dewey

Education

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

Aspirations

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

- Nelson Mandela

New Beginnings

"You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So ... get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

Inspiration

"Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Ambition

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

- Plato

New Beginnings

"If you can't outplay them, outwork them."

- Ben Hogan

Hard Work

"Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey."

- Michael Josephson

Personal Growth

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

Reflection

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

- Ben Franklin

Education

"You're off to great places. Today is your day!"

- Dr. Seuss

New Beginnings

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare

Belief

"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

Empowerment

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

- Harriet Tubman

Aspirations

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."

- Carol Burnett

Education

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

- Russell M. Nelson

Education

"Do. Or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

Motivation

"There may be days when you'll say to yourself, 'I can't. I literally can't even.' But you can! You can even!"

- Katie Couric

Motivation

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Education

"It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."

- George Burns

Failure

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

Hard Work

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

"Be the hardest working person you know. Because if you're not, someone else will be."

- Ian Brennan

Hard Work

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

Resilience

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with—a man is what he makes himself."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Belief in Self

"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

Belief

"Knowledge — that is, education in its true sense — is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

- Aristotle

Education

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Education

"The road to freedom — here and everywhere on earth — begins in the classroom."

- Hubert Humphrey

Education

"The more that you read, the more things you know, the more learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

Education

"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

New Beginnings

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

- G.K. Chesterton

Education

"The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not graduation day."

- Harry Wong

Education

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats

Inspiration

"School bells are ringing, loud and clear; Vacation’s over, school is here."

- Winifred C. Marshall

Inspiration

"Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Achievement

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-awareness

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and be told, ‘I am with you kid. Let’s go!’"

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!"

- Dr. Seuss

Learning

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

Determination

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

- Albert Einstein

Education

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

Influence

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

Education

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Courage

"Think about every problem, every challenge we face. The solution starts with education."

- George H.W. Bush

Education

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."

- Douglas Pagels

New Beginnings

"Everything is hard before it is easy."

- Goethe

Growth

"There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: passion."

- Martha Stewart

Success

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

- Brian Herbert

Learning

"The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music."

- Gerald Ford

Education

"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."

- Dan Rather

Inspiration

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

- Josie Bissett

Aspirations

"Our greatest natural resource is in the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

Education

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

- James Dewar

Education

"Information may be free, an education is priceless."

- Marie Forleo

Education

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

Education

"In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson."

- Tom Bodett

Education

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

- Herbert Spencer

Education

"You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d think you do. You build by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities."

- Barbara Bush

Success

"Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen."

- Sukhraj S. Dhillon

Positivity

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

- Jane Austen

Education

"There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others."

- Michelle Obama

Connection to Earth

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

New Beginnings

"School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside."

- Lon Watters

Education

"School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here."

- Winifred C. Marshall

New Beginnings

"There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks."

- Albert Einstein

Adversity

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

Education

"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."

- Phil Collins

Inspiration

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

Bravery

"You can learn something every day if you pay attention."

- Ray LeBlond

Learning

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

Aspirations

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

- Alfred Mercier

Learning

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

- Oscar Wilde

Education

"Our goal must be decency and respect for every human we encounter."

- Oprah Winfrey

Compassion

"Being fearless isn’t being 100% not fearful, it’s being terrified but you jump anyway."

- Taylor Swift

Courage

"Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles."

- R.L. Stine

Education

"Education doesn’t make us smarter. It makes us whole."

- Jill Biden

Education

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

- Walt Disney

Education

"Be true to your school now, just like you would to your girl or guy. Be true to your school now and let your colors fly."

- The Beach Boys

Inspiration

"The most important thing we learn at school is that the most important things can't be learned at school."

- Haruki Murakami

Wisdom

"Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect."

- Dav Pilkey

Creativity

"Nothing prevents boredom like a good book."

- Dave Pilkey

Education

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

- John Green

Ambition

"It is always better to ask a question than to answer one."

- Lemony Snicket

Education

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

- Lily Tomlin

Education

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

New Beginnings

"No one is perfect. That’s why pencils have erasers."

- Wolfgang Riebe

Learning from Mistakes

"Our passion is and always should be to make life better."

- Martha Stewart

Compassion

"If you think your teachers are tough, wait 'til you get a boss."

- Bill Gates

Adaptation

"We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."

- Peter De Vries

Learning from Mistakes

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."

Education

"The influence of a good teacher can never be erased."

Education