Funny & Inspirational School Quotes and Sayings for Students
Famous Quotes about School
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” —Oscar Wilde
“We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” —Carol Burnett
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” —John Dewey
“The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.” —Marvin Phillips
“Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.” —Josie Bisset
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” —Albert Einstein
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” —Wayne Huizenga
“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.” —Dr. Seuss
“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.” —Dr. Seuss
“I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy — I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” —Art Williams
“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 is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.” —Shakuntala Devi
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” —Pele
“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” —Chuck Grassley
Funny Quotes About School
“Work hard, nap hard.” —Demi Lovato
“The school stands for So-Called House Of Old Labours.”
“I’m not bad at Maths I am mad over mathematician’s.”
“My school never taught me how to light a matchstick.”
“I hate school because they never allowed teamwork during exams.”
“In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.” —Marty Rubin
“High School looks goods on TV but in reality, it does not.”
“The only thing which excites me in the school was the lunchtime.”
“No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.” —Saul Bellow
“Once I cracked a joke on electricity and soon after electricity got R.I.P.”
“I’m not attentive during the lecture but I’m very attentive during the attendance.”
“As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools.” —Unknown
“As long as there will be Maths in school I always pray to God.”
“My principal trained me so hard that I can fight anyone in the streets.”
“I never attended my lectures at school 100% but I never skip any function.”
“School means work and work means death. Let’s all go take a nap.” —Emma Shannon
“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.” —Bill Watterson
“I don’t go to school to learn I go to school just to entertain others.”
“I don’t hate going to school but it never let my sweet dreams to complete.”
“I like the time period of examinations because at home I’m treated like a king.”
“PT teacher once canceled our games period and after school, we all took his game.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” —Winston Churchill
“School is like government office it takes 12 years to get you done from the education.”
“Everyone says to create your own identity, therefore, I decided to not wear my identity card.”
“School is where we go to learn something from teachers but our teachers don’t know our future
“I don’t like to study for the examinations because I know I got the back of scholar.”
“I used to follow one of my teachers because they said you should always follow your dream.”
“We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.” —Peter De Vries
“Maths told me to find X but I know how hard it is to get back your X.”
“Geography taught me everything about the earth but it never taught me how to go outside the earth.”
“My teacher took my calculator in the exam and then I asked for an answer from my friend.”
“I don’t the answers in the exam but I’m still taking supplements just to cover up my fees.”
“I always wonder that teacher also goes for an interview round and then teaches us for an interview.”
“I bring notes in the exam to cheat but I can’t remember which questions have got its answer.”
“School taught me never to quit but they never taught me when to stop and I’m still going away.”
“My maths teacher told me nothing is impossible and she then can’t even draw a circle without a rounder.”
“My maths teacher believe that I’m good at maths but she doesn’t know that I got toppers around me.”
“I got good marks in maths but my father still complaints about the other student not getting the good marks.”
“The teacher taught me how to solve a problem but I can’t explain to her that my problem was she.”
“My mother thinks that I go to school to learn but I go to school just to irritate my teachers.”
“No matter how good you were in school but you tried to compensate your parent’s money by taking school facilities.”
“Sign on a high school bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday: knowledge. Bring your own containers.” —E.C. McKenzie
“My teachers ask me to learn tables and then I watch my table for 2 hours and I learned it visually.”
“One day I got out on a duck in school cricket game then after I’m official umpire of the school cricket.”
“My teacher used to say that I can’t do anything in my life but she doesn’t know that I came for her.”
“My teacher always ask for not wasting time and then she gave 30 minutes of speech on how not to waste time.”
“Once I praised my teacher and then she told me that- She will complain and then I asked How? Then she smiled…..”
“Till school, I used to run after the toppers and then at college we all were at the same line of the downfall.”
“Once I like my teacher so much that I purposely failed in the exam just to sit in her class one more year.”
“My mum wakes me up to go to school but she doesn’t know that my favorite place to sleep is on the last bench
“One day my teacher beat me with no reason and then I just ask for the simple question that- Do you believe in Karma?”
“If the exam is going to decide your success and success is not a one-day shot then how come the exam is 3 hours show?”
“My friend Mac never used to like to carry books in school as the teacher won’t like his writing, so he created his own Macbook.”
“I am like a Gangster in school the rest of the day but at the PTI I am like an employee begging in front of his boss for promotion.”
“Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at the same time.” —Mark Twain
Funny School Quotes for Students’ Life
“School never taught me how to tie a tie?”
“I never attended Biology class but I never skipped Reproduction lecture.”
“The only drawing which I could draw better was the Scenery.”
“I failed in the exam because I was busy looking at my favorite teacher.”
“I purposely scored less just to sit in an extra lecture of my favorite teacher.”
“I sold all of my class benches nut bolt just to make an extra income.”
“My main motto to take part in sports was to eat snacks from the canteen.”
“I’m the guy who never answers in the classroom but always took more supplements in examinations.”
“I never got a chance to sit next to a girl, so I decided to be a teacher.”
“Once my teacher noticed that I’m good at cricket but she doesn’t know that I was scoring for her.”
“Maths was easy till there were only numbers but it became worse when Alphabets (Variables) took a fight with numbers.”
“I’m the guy who finishes the lunch box in the period and then finishes other’s lunch box in the break time.”
“I got caught using a cellphone in the classroom and when my teacher took, my phone rings and says- “Baby I’m Sorry I’m Not Sorry.”
Inspirational Quotes about School
“A thousand mile journey begins with a single step.” —Chinese proverb
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” —Albert Einstein
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” —Beverly Sills
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.” —Maya Angelou
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” —Neale Donald Walsch
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” —Dr. Seuss
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” —Sheryl Sandberg
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw
“Self-worth comes from one thing — thinking that you are worthy.” —Wayne Dyer
“Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” —Beyoncé Knowles Carter
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” —Robert F. Kennedy
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” —James Dean
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” —Malcolm Forbes
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Gandhi
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” —Babe Ruth
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” —B.B. King
“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” —Walt Disney
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.” —Benny Lewis
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” —William Butler Yeats
“If people knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” —Michelangelo
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” —Malcolm Gladwell
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” —Mark Twain
“If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” —Jim Rohn
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas A. Edison
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey
“Success means having the courage, the determination and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” —George Sheehan
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” —Muhammad Ali
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” —Kofi Annan
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” —Christopher Reeve
“Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.” —Ernest Hemingway
“Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people, or find a different room.” —Michael Dell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell, four-star general and former U.S. secretary of state
“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
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” —Vince Lombardi
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” —Nora Roberts
“I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.” —Michelle Obama
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” —Steve Jobs
Motivational Quotes On School Education
“Don’t stress. Do your best. Forget the rest.” —Anonymous
“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.” —Eminem
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” —Pablo Picasso
“I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” —Ray LeBlond
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” —Chinese Proverb
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” —Confucius
“School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.” —Lon Watters
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right.” —Henry Ford
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” —Albert Einstein
“When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.” —Dalai Lama
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’ll be doomed if you don’t try.” —Beverly Hills
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” —William Butler Yeats
“Do the best you can until you know better? Then when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou
“Education is our passport to the future. For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare it today.” —Malcolm X
“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.” —Beverly Cleary
“I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy- I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” —Art Williams
“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.” —Les Brown
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.” —John Green
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” —Kurt Vonnegut
“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” —Larry Bird
“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
“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.” —Chuck Grassley
“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 Einstein
“In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other parts of the world, we are starving for education…it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.” —Malala Yousafzai
“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.” —E.O. Wilson
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” —Michael Jordan
“No matter what you do, no matter how many times you screw up and think to yourself “there’s no point to carry on”, no matter how many people tell you that you can’t do it – keep going. Don’t quit. Don’t quit, because a month from now you will be that much closer to your goal than you are now. Yesterday you said tomorrow. Make today count.” —Anonymous
Inspirational Back-to-School Quotes for Kids
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” —Steve Martin
“Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen.” —Conan O’Brien
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” —Aristotle
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!” —Audrey Hepburn
“Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” —Oprah Winfrey
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” —Taylor Swift
“School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.” —Winifred C. Marshal
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” —Anthony J. D’angelo
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” —Richard Branson
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” —Lily Tomlin
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” —Malala Yousafzai
“The first day of school is always a fashion show. The rest of the school year? A pajama party.” —Unknown
“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
“Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.” —Bill Dodds
“Take your risks now. As you grow older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn’t even on.” —Amy Poehler
“It’s one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.” —Dana Perino
Inspirational Quotes about School For Students
First Day Of School Quotes
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” —Charles Dederich
“The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” —Harry Wong
“The first day of school: The day when the countdown to the last day of the school begins.” —Unknown
“All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.” —Ken Robinson
“You’re off to great to great places. Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!” —Dr. Seuss
“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
Middle School Quotes
“Middle school has many complex tunnels, some are underground.” —Alexandra Contreras-Montesano
“Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.” —Angela K. Bennett
“But the more we all stuck together, the more outside layers fell off, revealing that we all have insecurities, fears, and dreams. And that’s perfectly normal. That’s how God made us.” —Allyson Kennedy
“One day middle school will end and become high school and after that it just becomes life. All those things you think are important now won’t be anymore.” —Diary of a Wimpy Kid
“Middle school is kind of like Middle-earth. It’s a magical journey filled with elves, dwarves, hobbits, queens, kings, and a few corrupt wizards. Word to the wise: pick your traveling companions well. Ones with the courage and moral fiber to persevere. Ones who wield their lip gloss like magic wands when confronted with danger. This way, when you pass through the congested hallways rife with pernicious diversion, you achieve your desired destination—or at least your next class.” —Kimberly Dana
High School Quotes
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” —Steve Martin
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” —Aristotle
“No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.” —Regina Brett
“What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.” —J. J. Watt
“High school is about finding who you are, because that’s more important than trying to be someone else.” —Nick Jonas
“By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.” —Clifton Fadiman
“High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship – nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.” —John Green
“High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I’ll take with me the rest of my life.” —Giancarlo Stanton
End Of School Year Quotes
“What feels like the end is often the beginning.” —Unknown
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
“Let’s do what we love, and let’s do a lot of it.” —Marc Jacobs
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” —A.A. Milne
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” —Oprah Winfrey
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” —Carl Bard
School Quotes and Sayings for Students
“In school, you learn how to learn.” —Unknown
“School should be the best party in town.” —Peter Kline
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” —Victor Hugo
“The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.” —Richard DuFour
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain
“The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.” —Terrance Deal
“School prepares you for the real world… which also bites.” —Jim Benton
“I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.” —Edward de Bon
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” —Benjamin Franklin
“School is a place that provides education and education is the key to life.” —Unknown
“There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.” —Ray Bradbury
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” —Henry Ford
“School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure.” —Ambeth R. Ocampo
“We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.” —Evelyn Waugh
“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.” —Terry Tempest Williams
“It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.” —Nick Giovanni
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” —Harold Howe
“Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life.” —German Proverb
“It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.” —Sophia Loren
“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is a grave defect in the school where the playground suggests happy and classroom disagreeable thoughts.” —John Spalding
“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.” —Robert Frost
“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.” —Horace Mann
“If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.” —Richard Livingstone
“Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.” —James E. Faust
“You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.” —Emo Philips
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.” —Mark Twain