Thanksgiving is almost here.

A time to spend with loved ones. To eat delicious food, relax and have fun together.

And to take some time to reflect on what you can be grateful for (both small and bigger things in life).

So I thought this would be a good time to share 100 of the most inspirational, grateful and funny short Thanksgiving quotes.

Use them in a text or a group chat with friends. For your social media like Instagram or in your home on a letter board. Or in real life sometime during your Thanksgiving holiday.

Short and Inspirational Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
– Melody Beattie

“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W.T. Purkiser

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
– Cicero

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”
– Dalai Lama

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation.”
– Dalai Lama

“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”
– Hausa Proverb

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett

“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
– James E. Faust

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Gratitude at Work

“No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
– Voltaire

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”
– James E. Faust

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden

“No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
– Tony Robbins

“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton

“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”
– Rhonda Byrne

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”
– Amy Collette

“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson

“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
– Todd Stocker

“Gratitude changes everything.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Life is better when you’re thankful.”
– Joyce Meyer

Short and Funny Thanksgiving Quotes for Less Holiday Stress

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys.”
– Mitch Hedberg

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
– Rick Riordan

“Cooking tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Keep your friends close, but your relatives at a distance during Thanksgiving dinner.”
– David Letterman

“The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.”
– John Walters

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.”
– Damien Fahey

“It’s not the minutes spent at the Thanksgiving table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.”
– Unknown

“Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.”
– Melanie White

“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
– Gloria Fallon

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields

“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.”
– Wayne Huizenga

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Family to Express Your Gratitude

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
– John Wooden

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
– Deb Caletti

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
– Anthony Brandt

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
– Maya Angelou

“What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.”
– Robert Brault

“Home is people. Not a place.”
– Robin Hobb

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
– Desmond Tutu

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family.”
– Haniel Long

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”
– Irina Shayk

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love.”
– Mitch Albom

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
– Peter Buffett

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
– Jane Howard

“Forever on Thanksgiving the heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created.”
– Winston Churchill

“The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?”
– Nora Ephron

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

“Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings.”
– Joyce Giraud

“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.”
– Jackie Windspear

Short Thanksgiving Quotes for Your Beloved Friends

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
– Maria Shriver

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell

“Real friendship is when your friend comes over to your house on Thanksgiving and doesn’t judge you for eating pie straight from the tin.”
– Jim Harper

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
– Danielle Duckery

“To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.”
– John Bytheway

“Friendship is the wine of life.”
– Edward Young

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”
– Thomas Fuller

“True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”
– Isabel Allende

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
– William Shakespeare

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Good friends are like pumpkin pie – sweet and always there when you need them.”
– Sandra Shea

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
– Maya Angelou

“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake

“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree

“What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food.”
– Daniel Humm

“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”
– Alice Walker

Want more inspiration for your holiday? Then have a look at these inspirational Thanksgiving quotes, the funny quotes about Thanksgiving here and also this one with short Thanksgiving captions.

Working together can help us reach goals and dreams that are out of reach if we try to do it alone.

But working as a team in a smart and smooth way isn’t always easy.

We encounter setbacks, motivation and energy may sometimes run low and stress and pressure can throw a wrench into what was working well.

So in today’s post I’d like to help out with that and share 100 of the most positive, funny and motivational short teamwork quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to give you a jolt of new energy, a couple of laughs to release a bit of stress and then a renewed focus.

Short and Positive Teamwork Quotes on Successful Team Building

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.”
– Norman Shidle

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.”
– Barbara Glacel

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller

“A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
– Amy Poehler

“Many hands make light work.”
– John Heywood

“When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.”
– Ethiopian Proverb

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb

“A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.”
– Bill Bethel

“It takes two flints to make a fire.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.”
– Paul Solarz

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
– John Wooden

“Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference.”
– Alison Pincus

“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
– Biz Stone

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
– Babe Ruth

“The path to greatness is along with others.”
– Baltasar Gracian

Short and Motivational Teamwork Quotes for Work

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
– Vince Lombardi

“We rise by lifting others.”
– Robert Ingersoll

“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
– Lewis B. Ergen

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
– Henry Ford

“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”
– James Cash Penney

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
– Napoleon Hill

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– Michael Jordan

“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
– Steve Jobs

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
– Ken Blanchard

“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
– Iyanla Vanzant

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
– Virginia Burden

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
– H.E. Luccock

“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
– George Shinn

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington

“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
– Mattie Stepanek

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”
– John Maxwell

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
– Andrew Carnegie

“Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.”
– Becka Schoettle

Funny and Short Teamwork Quotes for Stress Relief

“Teamwork – a few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.”
– Larry Kersten

“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
– Jason Kidd

“Sure, there’s no ‘i’ in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an ‘e’.”
– Kevin Myers

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.”
– Edward Abbey

“Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us.”
– Dave Barry

“A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!”
– Bonnie Edelstein

“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”
– Lou Holtz

“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
– Thomas Sowell

“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.”
– Michael Winner

“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?”
– Matthew Woodring Stover

“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.”
– Stephen Hawking

“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
– Lewis Grizzard

“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
– Unknown

“It’s called ‘teamwork’ but most of the time it’s everyone sitting around until one man does all the work.”
– Thomas Wilbur

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“Committee: A group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.”
– Fred Allen

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.”
– Jane Goodall

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

Short and Inspirational Teamwork Quotes on Great Leadership

“To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.”
– Christine Caine

“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
– Lee Iacocca

“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.”
– Patrick Lencioni

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check.”
– Steve Jobs

“It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman

“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
– Patrick Lencioni

“A team is not a group of people who work together but a team is a group of people who trust each other.”
– Simon Sinek

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”
– Reid Hoffman

“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”
– Simon Mainwaring

“What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.”
– Jean-Francois Cope

“A leader must inspire or his team will expire.”
– Orrin Woodward

“The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.”
– James Cash Penney

“Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well-motivated individual.”
– Bill Gates

“A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately.”
– David Packard

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team.”
– Knute Rockne

“True greatness is almost never achieved alone; behind it is most often a group of highly motivated people supporting each other.”
– Rip Miller

“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits.”
– Jim Stovall

Short and Hilarious Teamwork Quotes with Relatable Work Humor

“You think it’s dumb when someone says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but you stick one in there and you see how dumb that looks.”
– Brendan Kiely

“Teachers call it copying. We call it ‘teamwork’.”
– A Student

“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Francesca Elisia

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’”
– Don Marquis

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
– Steve Jobs

“Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train.”
– Jim Halpern

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Aim low, reach your goals and avoid disappointment.”
– Dilbert

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
– Aristotle

“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.”
– Slappy White

“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
– Ogden Nash

“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.”
– Henny Youngman

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
– Bette Midler

“I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I’m lying.”
– Rita Rudner

“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.”
– Sarah Brown

“Success is just a matter of luck, ask any failure.”
– Earl Wilson

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
– Lily Tomlin

“A cubicle is just a padded cell without a door.”
– Mitchell Ratner

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

Want more motivation and laughs for work? Then have a look at these inspirational teamwork quotes, the short work quotes here and also this one with hilarious work quotes.

Retirement.

A big change. A new adventure.

Exciting but maybe also a bit daunting and uncertain.

To help you out with that I’d like to share 52 of the most witty, hilarious and funny retirement quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that will make you laugh, relax and maybe release a bit of stress and uncertainty about this brand new chapter in your life.

Funny Retirement Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.”
– Gene Perret

“In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.”
– Terri Guillemets

“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
– Chi Chi Rodriguez

“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
– Bill Watterson

“I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!”
– Unknown

“I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.”
– Danny McGoorty

“I would like to extend my condolences to your employer for the devastating loss. Happy retirement!”
– Unknown

“When you retire, you switch bosses – from the one who hired you to the one who married you.”
– Gene Perret

“There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.”
– Robert Half

“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
– Abe Lemons

“I’m not just retiring from the company, I’m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.”
– Hartman Jule

“A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.”
– Ella Harris

“Yes,” he laughed, “I’ve been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They’re called naps.”
– Terri Guillemets

“I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.”
– Gene Perret

“Instead of saving for someone else’s college education, I’m currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.”
– Jen Kirkman

“Retirement is like a long vacation in Vegas. The goal is to enjoy these years to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.”
– Jonathan Clements

“My retirement plan is to get thrown into a minimum security prison in Hawaii.”
– Julius Sharpe

“I’m tired of retirement jokes. I retired my hearing aid, my teeth, and the mortgage. The only thing left is my breath.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.”
– Gene Perret

“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
– Bob Hope

Hilarious Retirement Sayings and Wishes With Lots of Humor

“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.”
– Betty White

“Retirement adds 5 days to your weekend! Enjoy it!”
– Unknown

“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain

“Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.”
– Kellie Elmore

“Retirement: that’s when you return from work one day and say ‘hi honey, I’m home – forever’.”
– Gene Perret

“My retirement plan is to get thrown off the golf course.”
– Rory McIlroy

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
– Henry Emerson Fosdick

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Every day is a chance to begin again.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”
– Fred Rogers

“Retire from work, but not from life.”
– M.K. Soni

“Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”
– Atul Gawande

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”
– Robert Benchley

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The purpose of life is to find your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away.”
– Shulamit Ambalu

“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”
– George Burns

Short and Funny Retirement Sayings

“The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.”
– George Foreman

“I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!”
– Dick Van Dyke

“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
– Robert Benchley

“Retirement: When you stop lying about your age and start lying around the house.”
– Bob Simmons

“Finish last in your league, and they call you an idiot. Finish last in medical school, and they call you doctor.”
– Abe Lemons

“Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.”
– Terrence H. Seamon

“It is our habits that determine how we age, not our genes.”
– Steven R. Gundry

“The only thing better than a good education is a good retirement!”
– Franklin P. Adams

“Spreading sheets sounds more appealing than a spreadsheet.”
– Unknown

“The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.”
– Sam Williams

“He who laughs last at the boss’s jokes probably isn’t far from retirement.”
– Unknown

“I can’t wait to retire so I can get up at 6 o’clock in the morning and go drive around really slow and make everybody late for work.”
– Roger Steves

“What do you call a person who is happy on a Monday? Retired.”
– Unknown

Want more funny quotes about life? Then have a look at these funny love quotes, the hilarious quotes about life here and also these funny friendship quotes.

The warm and free days of summer are coming to an end and it’s time to head back to school again.

It’s a time of excitement and fun. But sometimes also a time of stress and nervousness.

So to help you, your kids and students if you’re a teacher I’d like to share 120 of the most positive, motivational, funny and stress reducing back to school quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that’ll help make the start of this school year a happy, simple and inspired one.

Positive and Inspirational Back to School Quotes for Kids

“A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clean and anything can happen.”
– Denise Witmer

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
– Alfred Mercier

“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”
– Brian Herbert

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
– Plato

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

“Be curious, not cool.”
– Ken Burns

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.”
– Josie Bisset

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
– Virginia Woolf

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

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
– Margaret Fuller

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”
– Joyce Meyer

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

Motivational Back to School Quotes for Students

“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will.”
– Venus Williams

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

“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

“Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

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

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
– Brian Tracy

“Make yourself proud.”
– Peter W. Smith

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

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

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

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

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

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

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

“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

“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

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas Huxley

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.”
– Jill Biden

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

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
– C. S. Lewis

“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
– Alan Cohen

Short Back to School Quotes for Teachers

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

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

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way.”
– George Evans

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
– Bob Talbert

“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.”
– Mark Twain

“The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.”
– Dan Rather

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.”
– Joseph Campbell

“The future of the world is in my classroom today.”
– Ivan Welton Fitzwater

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.”
– Smiley Blanton

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”
– Japanese Proverb

“The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.”
– Dorothea Dix

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
– Clay P. Bedford

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
– Roger Lewin

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
– Solomon Ortiz

“Our job is to teach the students we have, not the ones we would like to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have right now. All of them.”
– Dr. Kevin Maxwell

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

“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”
– Guy Kawasaki

“There is nothing on earth as important as a helpful and kind teacher for knowledge but also for building confidence as a child.”
– Unknown

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
– Mark Van Doren

Funny Back to School Quotes and Sayings

“Respect your parents. They passed school without Google.”
– Unknown

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
– Andy McIntyre

“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

“Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.”
– E.C. McKenzie

“I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.”
– Kim Harrison

“School is a lot like toilet paper. You only miss it when it’s gone.”
– Unknown

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

“The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school.”
– Milton Berle

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

“My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary column.”
– Norm Crosby

“First month of school: Look nice and dress up. Rest of the school year: Rock the homeless grandma look.”
– Unknown

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
– Lily Tomlin

“As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools.”
– Unknown

“Work hard, nap hard.”
– Demi Lovato

“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“It’s not that I hate school. I just hate waking up early in the morning.”
– Unknown

“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

“The first day of school: the day when the countdown to the last day of the school begins.”
– Unknown

“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”
– Edgar W. Howe

“There is only one thing bigger than a kindergartner’s curiosity, and that’s their backpack.”
– Unknown

“Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“Cheers to the first day of a new school year and the beginning of the Thanksgiving break countdown.”
– Unknown

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
– Steven Wright

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

“There’s no tired like teacher tired at the beginning of a school year!”
– Unknown

“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

Uplifting and Stress Reducing Back to School Quotes for Parents

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

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: I will try again tomorrow.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”
– Steve Maraboli

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
– E. Joseph Cossman

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
– Viggo Mortensen

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

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene

“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone’s mean to you all the time.”
– Christine Arylo

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”
– Lady Bird Johnson

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
– Maya Angelou

“When you get back from school, Mommy and Daddy will be waiting for you. Go on, make new friends, meet some nice teachers and learn something new on your first day!”
– Unknown

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
– Phil Collins

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
– Herbert Spencer

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

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

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

“Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.”
– Dav Pilkey

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.”
– Goethe

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

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

“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

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