Get Your Kids in the Learning Groove With These Back-to-School Quotes

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31 Inspirational Back-To-School Quotes for KidsAce Cuervo

Sending your kids back to school can stir up a mix of emotions. While there's often a bit of end-of-summer gloom, it doesn’t have to be all doom! Despite what the little ones may think, picking out new back-to-school outfits, packing up backpacks, and planning school lunches can be a lot of fun. It’s all about creating a positive vibe, and this list of uplifting back-to-school quotes will do just that!

This list of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes are just what students need before heading back to school. This quote by Steve Martin will make you feel like you can conquer anything: “Be so good they can't ignore you.” Other quotes value the importance of education, like this one by Albert Einstein: “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” There are also teacher quotes on here for our leaders who take on a meaningful role: “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” One read through this list, and your kid will be looking at this upcoming school year with a brand new perspective!

Get ready for the school year with these fun ideas:

Margaret Fuller

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

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Bob Talbert

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

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Dav Pilkey

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

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Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

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Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Alexander Graham Bell

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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Lon Watters

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

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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Margaret Mead

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

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Abraham Lincoln

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

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Michael Jordan

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

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Helen Keller

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

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Maya Angelou

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

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Milton Berle

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

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Nelson Mandela

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

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Lily Tomlin

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

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Steve Martin

“Be so good they can't ignore you.”

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Russell M. Nelson

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

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Smiley Blanton

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

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Eleanor Roosevelt

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

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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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Walt Disney

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

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Audrey Hepburn

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

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Dana Stewart Scott

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

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Oscar Wilde

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

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Leo Buscaglia

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”

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Oprah Winfrey

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

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Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

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Albert Einstein

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

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George Bernard Shaw

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

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