Looking for positive quotes for your children to inspire them? We have rounded up the best collection of motivational quotes for kids and inspirational quotes for kids, positive sayings, encouraging captions for kids to motivate them.
Looking for the right words to say to keep your kids and students motivated at the beginning of the school year? We have picked some of the most encouraging and uplifting quotes and thoughts which are finest inspirational quotes all kids should hear.
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These wise and positive quotes will encourage kids/children to be confident, kind, patient, hardworking, loving and humble. Your child may be in kindergarten, school, middle-school or in college, some daily morning words of motivation can do wonders and make them wiser.
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Inspirational Quotes For Kids
Motivational Quotes For Kids
Inspirational Quotes For Kids
“I think I can. I know I can.” Inspirational Quotes For Kids
“Being kind is never wasted.” Motivational Quotes For Kids
“Believe you can and you will.” Motivation Quotes For Kids
“You’re amazing just the way you are.” Encouraging Quotes For Kids
“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” Inspirational Quotes For Children
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Motivation Quotes For Children
“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.”
“We grow great by dreams.” – Woodrow Wilson
“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
“You are amazing. You are brave. You are strong.” Encouraging Words For Kids
“Do the right thing….even when no one is looking.”
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney Short Motivational Quotes For Kids
“The more you give away the happier you become.”
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden Motivation Inspirational Quotes Kids
“There is no substitute for hard work.” – Thomas Edison Motivation Quotes For School Kids
“When you know better you do better.” – Maya Angelou
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Motivational Educational Quotes For Kids
“Anything is possible. Anything can be.” – Shel Silverstein
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss
“Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.” Reading Motivational Quotes For Kids
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain Famous Motivational Quotes Kids
“You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. SeussBest Motivational Quotes For Kids
“Children are our most valuable resource.” — Herbert Hoover
“Don’t doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.” – Aslan
“We all can dance when we find music we love.” – Giles Andreae
“You always pass failure on the way to success.” – Mickey Rooney Motivational Quotes For Kids Students
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.” – Horace Mann
“It’s up to you how far you’ll go. If you don’t try, you’ll never know.”
“Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.” – Sydney Smith
“We know what we are but know not what we may be.” – ShakespeareInspiration Quotes For Kids
“Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.” — Wess Stafford
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christen Andersen
“Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.”― Vanessa Diffenbaugh
“No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.” – Wolfgang Riebe
“Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.” – Auliq Ice
“Never waste a minute thinking of anyone you don’t like.” – Eisenhower
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” ― Dalai Lama
“The journey of a life time starts with the turning of a page.” – Rachel Anders
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret Mead
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…” – Susan Polis Schutz
“Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.” – Henry Ford
“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” — Jess Lair
“A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy Uplifting Quotes For Kids
“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” – John Wooden
“You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel.” ― Robert Tew
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” ― Katharine Hepburn
“What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.” – Cleveland Amory
“Always keep a positive mindset, it will improve your outlook on the world.” – Roald Dahl
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr.SeussMotivational Quotes for Middle Schoolers
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
“One thing I believe strongly in this life is that you just don’t reward bad behavior.” ― Dr. Phil
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – Buckminster Fuller Positive Quotes For Children
“No matter how bad things get, something good is out there, over the horizon.” – Green Lantern
“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.” – Natalie Portman
“All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.” – William Spady
“Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you.”
“Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.” – Luna Lovegood
“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the Stuff of growth.” – Sir Ken Robinson
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.” – Laurence Sterne
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ― Joyce Brothers
“Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.” – Jim Rohn
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
“It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” – George Burns
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” – Pamela Vaull Starr
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” – H. Jackson Brown
“There is a voice inside of you, that whispers all day long, I feel this is right for me, or I know that this is wrong.”
“No kid is unsmart. Every kid’s a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.” – Robin Sharma
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” – Alice Munro
“Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. ” – Bonnie Blair
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. ” – Albert Einstein
“We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.”― Chen Shui-bian
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L’Engle
Motivational Quotes for Kids
“Be kind to others.” Short Inspirational Quotes For Kids
“Learn something new everyday.” Positive Quotes For Kids
“Do more of what makes you happy.” Motivational Messages For Children
“You become what you believe.” – Oprah WinfreyDaily Motivation For Kids
“Change the world by being yourself.”- Amy Poehler
“Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.” – Doris Roberts
“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci Inspirational Quotes For Kids In School
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Do all you can to make your dreams come true.” – Joel Osteen
“Everywhere you go, leave a glitter trail of kindness behind you.” School Inspirational Quotes For Kids
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
“Life doesn’t give us purpose. We give life purpose.” – The Flash
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai LamaInspirational Quotes For Kids Images
“Time to rise. Time for school! Open your eyes.” — Tammie Jones
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” – Mark Twain
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.” – Charles Gordy
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.” – Batman
“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Positive Inspiring Quotes For Kids
“A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.” – Cicero
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”– Francis Bacon
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig ZiglarInspirational Quotes For Kids From Teachers
“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” – Dolly Parton
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
“If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition.” – Barbara Cook Confidence Inspiration Quotes For Kids
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” – Jesse Jackson
“Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” ― Claire Fagin
“Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.” – W. E. B. Du Bois
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey HepburnInspirational Success Quotes Kids
“Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
“Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.”- Nina Dobrev
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
“You are super duper amazing talented go getter let nothing stand in your way ever.”
“Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.” –Arthur Wellesley
“Everything that you imagine you can do…. And whatever you dream will come true!” Good Quotes For Kids
“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.” – Eeyore
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.” – Deepak Chopra
“When you laugh, you change, and when you change, the world changes.” – Madan Kataria
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot
“Never give up, for that is the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” — Muhammad Ali
“You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Irish Proverb
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb
“School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.” — Winifred C. Marshal
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
“Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there’s a light somewhere nearby.” – Ruth E. Renkei
“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.” – Bill Kelly
“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
“There will never be another precious you! Be yourself. Stay true to your inner nature.” – Gail Mewes
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”– Paulo Coelho
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will”.” – Charles Dickens
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” — Horace
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” – Carl Rogers
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
“Good manners encompass all the things that make the people around us feel good.” – Jacquie McTaggart
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” – Richard L. Evans
“You’re off to great places. Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!”― Dr. Seuss
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” — Judy Garland
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
“The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” ― Harry Wong
“Nobody loses anything by being polite, but there are a lot of people who are afraid to take the risk.” – Evan Esar
“Just because something feels scary doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. Fear does not equal danger.” — Amy Morin
“Each day is a new day, a new opportunity to work towards making your life the way you want it.” – Josie Cluney
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
“Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” – Thomas S. Monson
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens
“Be sure those you have around you encourage, inspire and motivate you to continue to move to the next level.” – Honoree Corder
“When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.” – Dale Carnegie
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” — Roy T. Bennett
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have.” — Jim Rohn
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” – David M. Burns
Kids need to be equipped with positive self-talk just as much as anybody else. Young children also face a lot of obstacles in daily life. Also students face challenges like low self-esteem, fear, bullying, failure, acceptance from peers and more. These motivational quotes will help them to take a positive perspective in life and work hard for success.
We all sometimes benefit from a dose of inspiration. However, finding age-appropriate motivational quotes for kids can be a daunting task at times.
These encouraging words will help parents and teachers to inspire kids. They cover most of the common life events and situations they’ll have to work through.
