92+ Best High School Quotes: Exclusive Selection

High school is a school in the US for older children, usually children from grades 9-12, or aged approximately 14-18. Profoundly inspirational high school quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous High School Quotes

The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. Harry Wong

Now that you’ve graduated, just remember: Bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother. Melanie White

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Charles Dederich

This is nothing but a hive, and I am the one and only Queen Bee. Brian A Castle

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 haven’t even begun to peak. Dennis Reynolds

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

It will take a nation of millions to hold me back. Timothy Howard

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

I’m a senior, but I stay freshman. Martin Alvarado

School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here. Winifred C. Marshal

Love the life you live. Live the life you love. Bob Marley

The first day of school is always a fashion show. The rest of the school year? A pajama party.

I’m gonna go stand outside. If anyone asks, I’m outstanding. Taylor Bass

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai

Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else. Mitchel Wieland

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

We’ve arrived because we stuck together, champions one and all. Sharpay Evans

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

All through my senior year, luckily, I didn’t have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space. Brendon Urie

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. Taylor Swift

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.  Maya Angelou

Be so good they can’t ignore you. Steve Martin

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle

Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love. Emma Watson

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up. Regina Brett

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

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

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. Corrie Ten Boom

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends. J. J. Watt

What you do today will determine your future. Catherine Pulsifer

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

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward. Winston Churchill

High school is about finding who you are, because that’s more important than trying to be someone else. Nick Jonas

It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. John Guare

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

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job. Angela K. Bennett

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping. Jerry Zucker

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

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to, your dreams stay big, your worries stay small. Rascal Flatts

Middle school has many complex tunnels, some are underground. Alexandra Contreras Montesano

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau

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

Keep looking up! Learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. Rachel Boston

Work hard, nap hard. Demi Lovato

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. Malala Yousafzai

Sign on a high school bulletin board in Dallas Free every Monday through Friday knowledge. Bring your own containers. E.C. McKenzie

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future. David Copperfield

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life. Marty Rubin

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Sigmund Freud

School means work and work means death. Let’s all go take a nap. Emma Shannon

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Theresa

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. Peter De Vries

My head may be big, my eyes may be small, but my heart is just the right size. Alan Nguyen

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. Bill Watterson

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln

No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending. Saul Bellow

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. Dana Stewart Scott

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

You do have a future. There is light at the end of that inky black tunnel. Willow Cross

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey

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

The road to freedom here and everywhere on earth begins in the classroom. Hubert Humphrey

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true. Jim Otto

School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside. Lon Watters

The past is always tense, the future perfect. Zadie Smith

I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy- I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it. Art Williams

I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past. Mike Rowe

Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. George Herman Ruth

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

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

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. Oprah Winfrey

Don’t let the bastards grind you down. Margaret Atwood

How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. A.A. Milne

It is absolutely still possible to make a difference. Michelle Obama

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller

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

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Let’s do what we love, and let’s do a lot of it. Marc Jacobs

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi