30 Positive First Day of School Quotes to Help Your Kids Have a Great Year

The first day of school is approaching.

Maybe it’s your first day of the new semester or perhaps high school is in the rear view mirror and the first day of college is starting soon.

Or are you a mom or dad reading this and you’re both anxious and excited for your kid’s very first day in school?

No matter what situation you’re in I’d like to share 30 helpful and  positive first day of school quotes.

I hope they’ll help you too to feel less worried or stressed and to feel more excited, positive and ready to make this the best year yet.

Positive and Uplifting First Day of School Quotes

A quote by Denise Witmer.

“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’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.”
– Jenny Han

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
– Dr. Seuss

“I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study… would be about the same as getting into paradise.”
– Booker T. Washington

“All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.”
– Ken Robinson

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James Baldwin

“You come here for one thing and one thing only, and that is to learn. I used to spend a lot of my life waiting for the day I could quit school, but then came to realize that so long as we are alive we never leave school. Life is a series of high schools, one after the other.”
– RuPaul

Motivational First Day of School Quotes

An apple and pens on a school desk.

“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, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
– Malcolm X

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain

“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

“The first day of school is our second New Year’s. It is our day to make resolutions, to look backward to former lapses and triumphs and to look ahead, usually with a mix of anxiety and hope, to the year to come.”
– Mark Edmundon

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“The more that you read, the more things you know, the more you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss

First Day of School Quotes for Less Fears and Stress

“Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.”
– Joel Edgerton

“Don’t try hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different… just try hard to be you.”
– Zendaya

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
– John Newton

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

“Being fearless isn’t being 100 percent not fearful, it’s being terrified but you jump anyway.”
– Taylor Swift

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

A quote by A. A. Milne.

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– A.A. Milne

Short and Inspiring First Day of School Quotes

“He 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

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”
– James Dewar

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
– Chinese Proverb

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.”
– Malala Yousafzai

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
– B.B. King

Want more motivation for school? Then check out these 201 Education Quotes for Students and Teachers.

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Henrik Edberg is the creator of the Positivity Blog and has written weekly articles here since 2006. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Gothenburg and has been featured on Lifehacker, HuffPost and Paulo Coelho’s blog. Click here to learn more…