The first day of school is approaching.
Maybe it’s your first day of the new semester or maybe high school is in the rearview mirror and the first day of school is starting soon.
Or are you a mother or father reading this and are you both anxious and excited about your child’s very first day of school?
Whatever situation you are in, I would like to share with you 30 helpful and positive quotes about the first day of school.
I hope they will also help you feel less worried or stressed and more excited, positive, and ready to make this the best year yet.
Positive and uplifting quotes about the first day of school
“A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships and new challenges. The slate is clean and anything can happen.”
– Denise Witmer
“I always liked the first day of school more than the last day of school. Firsts are the best because they are a beginning.”
– Jenny Han
‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can take yourself in any direction you want.”
–Dr. Seuss
“I felt like going to school and studying… would be kind of like going to paradise.”
– Booker T. Washington
“All children start their school careers with a sparkling imagination, a fertile mind and a willingness to take risks with what they think.”
– Ken Robinson
“Children have never been good at listening to their parents, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
–James Baldwin
“You only come here for one thing and that is to learn. I spent much of my life waiting for the day I could leave school, but then I realized that as long as we live, we will never leave school. Life is a series of high schools, one after the other.”
– RuPaul
Motivational first day of school quotes
“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”
– Malala Yousafzai
“Education is the passport to the future, because tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
–Malcolm
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable ones, and then starting with the first one.”
– Mark Twain
“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades at school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.”
–Chuck Grassley
“The first day of school is our second New Year’s Day. It is our day to make resolutions, to look back on past failures and triumphs and to look ahead, usually with a mix of fear and hope, to the year ahead.”
– Mark Edmundon
‘Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever needs to be done, it is always your choice.”
–Wayne Dyer
“The more you read, the more things you know, the more you learn, the more places you visit.”
–Dr. Seuss
First day of school quotes for less anxiety and stress
“Everything is a learning process: every time you fall, you only learn to get up the next time.”
– Joel Edgerton
“Don’t try so hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different…just try your best to be yourself.”
– Zendaya
“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Houten
“We can easily get by if we just take on the burden of it every day. But the burden will be too heavy for us if we bear yesterday’s burden again today, and then add tomorrow’s burden before we have to bear it.”
–John Newton
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
–Albert Einstein
“Being fearless doesn’t mean not being 100 percent afraid, it’s being terrified, but you jump anyway.”
– Taylor Swift
‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
–Arthur Ashe
“You are braver than you think, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.”
– A.A. Milne
Short and inspiring quotes about the first day of school
“Who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
– Andy McIntyre
“The mind is like a parachute: it only functions when it is open.”
–James Dewar
“Teachers open the door, but you have to go in yourself.”
– Chinese proverb
“I never let my education influence my education.”
– Mark Twain
“They can’t stop me. I will get my education whether it is at home, at school or anywhere else.
– Malala Yousafzai
“The great thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
– BB King
Do you want more motivation for school? Then check out these 201 education quotes for students and teachers.
