Top 100 School Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.”

— Carol S. Dweck

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Education Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes

2. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

3. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Impact Quotes, Teacher Quotes

4. “A teacher should have a creative mind.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Creative Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

5. “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”

— Phil Collins

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Teacher Quotes

6. “Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Learning Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Important Quotes, Reading Quotes

7. “So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Friday Motivational Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Progress Quotes

8. “One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Curiosity Quotes, Teaching Quotes

9. “All men by nature desire knowledge.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Smart Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

10. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Education Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Children

11. “Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Teacher Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Students

12. “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Teaching Quotes

13. “You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Compassion Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Students

14. “Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.”

— Orrin Hatch

Also featured in: Future Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Moving Quotes, College Quotes

15. “Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.”

— Robby Novak

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Respect Quotes

16. “The difference between school and life? 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

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Funny Inspirational Quotes, Funny Quotes About Life

17. “It’s okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers – they help us to learn.”

— John Bradshaw

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Mistake Quotes

18. “In a world where you can be anything, choose to be kind.”

— Nitya Prakash

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Cute Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Virtue Quotes

19. “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

— William Feather

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Book Quotes, Library Quotes

20. “Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Book Quotes

21. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Teacher Quotes

22. “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

— Tomie dePaola

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Quotes About Children

23. “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.”

— Shakuntala Devi

24. “Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!”

— Hiromi

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Progress Quotes

25. “Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Sports Quotes

26. “Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.”

— Ken Robinson

Also featured in: Collaboration Quotes

27. “The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

— Plato

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Teaching Quotes

28. “Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.”

— Brad Henry

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Monday Quotes

29. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Dreaming Big Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students

30. “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

31. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

— Henry Adams

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Teaching Quotes

32. “Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”

— Desmond Tutu

Also featured in: Quality Quotes

33. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

— Charles William Eliot

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Back-to-School Quotes

34. “Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

35. “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.”

— Kalpana Chawla

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Path Quotes, Good Luck Quotes

36. “Study your lessons, don’t settle for less.”

— Tupac Shakur

37. “If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.”

— Erin Heatherton

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Cheer Quotes, Monday Morning Quotes, Monday Quotes

38. “Bullying is not okay. Period.”

— Jim C. Hines

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Common Sense Quotes, Respect To Be Respected Quotes

39. “Invest in yourself, in your education. There’s nothing better.”

— Sylvia Porter

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Back-to-School Quotes, College Quotes

40. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Education Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

41. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

— Mark Van Doren

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Back-to-School Quotes

42. “Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.”

— Julius Nyerere

43. “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Good Luck Quotes

44. “You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Mastery Quotes

45. “We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.”

— Denis Waitley

46. “Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.”

— Danica McKellar

47. “The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.”

— Newton D. Baker

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Intelligence Quotes, College Quotes

48. “Enter to learn; depart to serve.”

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Legacy Quotes, Teacher Appreciation Quotes

49. “We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Magic Quotes

50. “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.”

— Charlotte Mason

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Education Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Motivational Quotes for Students