Leaving For College Quotes For Parents

Leaving for college is an emotional time for parents and their children. To help ease the transition, here are some quotes and celebration ideas to commemorate this milestone:

Top 99 Leaving For College Quotes For Parents

1. “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
2. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
3. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
4. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
5. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
6. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
8. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
9. “The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.” – William Ralph Inge
10. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
11. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde
12. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
13. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
14. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
15. “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
16. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
17. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
18. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
20. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
21. “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” – Robert Greene
22. “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” – Zig Ziglar
23. “If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller
24. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
25. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
26. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
27. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
28. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
29. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
30. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
31. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
32. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
34. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
35. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
36. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
37. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
38. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
39. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
40. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
41. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
42. “The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
43. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
44. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
45. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
46. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
47. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
49. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
50. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
52. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
53. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
54. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
55. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
56. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
57. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
58. “The only true way to happiness is to live in the moment and let the future unfold on its own.” – Unknown
59. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
60. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” – Martin Luther King Jr.
61. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa
62. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
63. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
64. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
65. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
66. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
67. “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
68. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
69. “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” – George Washington Carver
70. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
71. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
72. “The only way to do great work is to love what you