Back to school is fast approaching and I’ve got BIG plans for my little students with motivational quotes about school that are perfect messages for their lunchbox notes. These 40+ motivational quotes about school can also be used as funny school quotes for a lunchbox note! Kids love to have fun and these motivational school quotes are the perfect message for back to school while inspirational school quotes reinforce a geat mindset all year.
Motivational Quotes About School
I got these lunch box note ideas after trying to impress my kid with my own messages and, um, coming up short. HA! I’m only half kidding; my little girl adores her mama but it’s undeniable that her world is broadening and so are the influences in her life. So I started researching school motivation quotes that my kids would enjoy. The funny quotes about school are great for lighthearted, funny lunch box notes, while the inspirational school quotes reinforce the attitudes and mindsets kids need to face upcoming challenges. And who doesn’t need a little motivation from mom to get them through the day from time to time?
I’ve loved tucking little lunch notes for kids since mine was in Kindergarten. It makes me happy that my love reaches them even when they’re away at school. But this year I wanted to up the ante and broaden their perspective a bit with back to school quotes from others. Let me know which is your favorite!
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Motivational School Quotes
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Yeats
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” – Aristotle
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”- Oscar Wilde
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman, you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“Intelligence plus character – that is the true goal of education.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“Education is our passport to the future. For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different. Just try hard to be you.” – Zendaya
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own and you know what know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss (He has so many funny quotes about school!)
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Funny School Quotes
Back to School Quotes
“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” – Steve Jobs
“You’re off to great places, today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes we’re all too quick to count down the days that we forget to make the days count.” – Unknown
“I’m not there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.” – Unknown
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” – Frank Zappa
“Dreams come in a size too big so that we can grow into them.” – Josie Bisset
“The expert at anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies. They are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” – Jacob Bronowski
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t” – Thomas Edison
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Funny Quotes About School
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstien
“You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crumbly attitude.” – Anonymous
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Be curious, not cool.” – Unknown
“I’ve learned so much from my mistakes. I think I’ll make a few more!” – Uknown
“Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.” – E.C. McKenzie
“Work hard, nap hard.” – Demi Lovato
“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” – Gracie Allen
“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name it means trouble.” – Mark Twain
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Inspirational School Quotes
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
“I’m not going to school just for the academics. I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.” – Emma Watson
“Believe you can and you are halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“He who opens a school door closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo
“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” – Confucius
“I went through phases of finding myself. I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, drill team girl, emo kid — and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.” –Debby Ryan
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“Sometimes you have to do what you don’t love so that you can do what you love.” – Unknown
