Each one of us could use a little inspiration now and then. Finding kid-friendly motivational sayings can be challenging, though.
We’ve compiled a selection of motivational sayings for kids to aid parents. They cover the majority of the typical life events and challenges they may face.
Motivational And Inspirational Quotes For Kids
1. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” — Roy T. Bennett
2. “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” – Vaibhav Shah
3. “You have to be unique and different and shine in your own way.” – Lady Gaga
4. “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucious
5. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” ― Booker T. Washington
6. “Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.” – Dale Carnegie
7. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
8. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama
9. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”― Rumi
10. “Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.”― Roy T. Bennett
11. “Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.” – Arthur Wellesley
12. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
13. “Do all you can to make your dreams come true.” – Joel Osteen
14. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
15. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”– Francis Bacon
16. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.”― Charlie Chaplin
17. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
18. “We grow great by dreams.” – Woodrow Wilson
19. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
20. “If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
21. “Don’t make plans. Make options.” —Jennifer Aniston
22. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
23. “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” – Zig Ziglar
24. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller
25. “Be silly, be honest, be kind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Life doesn’t give us purpose. We give life purpose.” – The Flash
27. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.” – Carl Rogers
28. “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” —Mason Cooley
29. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”– Joseph Addison
30. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”― Kurt Cobain
31. “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Irish Proverb
32. “With great power, comes great responsibility.” – Spiderman
33. “Love is the most important thing in life.” – Rainbow
34. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
35. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” – Proverb
36. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”― Abraham Lincoln
37. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.” ― Taylor Swift
38. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan
39. “Everything you can imagine is real.”― Pablo Picasso
40. “You never fail until you stop trying.” —Albert Einstein
41. — Earl Nightingale
42. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” —Plutarch
43. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
44. “Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. ” – Bonnie Blair
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46. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot
47. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
48. “Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.” ― Marianne Williamson
49. “The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.” ― Harry Wong
50. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
51. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
52. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”– Oprah Winfrey
53. “Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”― Patricia Cornwell
54. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
55. “Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.” – Doris Roberts
56. – Maya Angelou
57. “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickensen
58. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’. – Eleanor Roosevelt
59. “Belief creates the actual fact.”— William James
60. “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver
61. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
62. “Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.” – Batman
63. “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” – T.S. Eliot
64. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi
65. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
66. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.“ – Robert Louis Stevenson
67. “Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there’s a light somewhere nearby.” – Ruth E. Renkei
68. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” – Richard L. Evans
69. “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth
70. “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.” ― Claire Fagin
71. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so get on your way!” — Dr. Suess
72. “It’s always too soon to quit.”– Norman Vincent Peale
73. “Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” – Thomas S. Monson
74. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
75. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”― Oprah Winfrey
76. “If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition.” – Barbara Cook
77. “Impossible is just an opinion.” – Paulo Coelho
78. “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” ― Charles Dederich
79. “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” – Mark Twain
80. “School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.” — Winifred C. Marshal
81. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
82. “You miss of the shots you don’t take.”– Wayne Gretzky
83. “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.” – Wayne Gretzky
84. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”― Kathryn Stockett
85. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer
86. “A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.” – Eeyore
87. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
88. “Good manners encompass all the things that make the people around us feel good.” – Jacquie McTaggart
89. “Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” – Walt Disney
90. “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.” – W. E. B. Du Bois
91. “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” – Mark Twain
92. “Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.” ― Anton Chekhov
93. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
94. “In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.”― Nicholas Sparks
95. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” —Michelle Obama
96. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
97. “Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.” – Bill Kelly
98. “Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!”― Mark A. Cooper
99. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
100. “It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities.” – Woody Allen
Famous Inspirational Quotes About Good Behavior
101. “Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
102. “Nothing that’s worth anything is easy.” —Barack Obama
103. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
104. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy
105. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Ed Cole
106. “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
107. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”― Seneca
108. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”
109. “To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.” – Walt Whitman
110. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
111. “A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren
112. “Preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
113. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”― Lewis Carroll
114. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
115. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
116. “If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo
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118. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide
119. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
120. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
121. “Be sure those you have around you encourage, inspire and motivate you to continue to move to the next level.” – Honoree Corder
122. “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”― Roy T. Bennett
123. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”― Taylor Swift
124. “If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.” – Carl Lewis
125. “Each day is a new day, a new opportunity to work towards making your life the way you want it.” – Josie Cluney
126. “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”― Roy T. Bennett
127. “If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifer
128. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
129. “Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts.” – Abel Stevens
130. “Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
131. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
132. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
133. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
134. “Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
135. “With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.” — Dr. Suess
136. 131.“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
137. “Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.” – Josie Bisset
138. “You’re off to great places. Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!”― Dr. Seuss
139. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” — Henry Ford
140. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
141. “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.” – Confucius
142. “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
143. “Winners must have two things – definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.” – Brad Burden
144. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
145. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Suess
146. “Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.” – Henry Ford
147. “When you laugh, you change, and when you change, the world changes.” – Madan Kataria
148. “You will never have a completely bad day if you show kindness at least once.”– Greg Henry Quinn
149. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens
150. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
151. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible!”– Audrey Hepburn
152. “Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.” – Deepak Chopra
153. “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ” ― Oprah Winfrey
154. “Never give up, for that is the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
155. “If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
156. “Winning doesn’t mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” — Bonnie Blair
157. “The kids who ask WHY are the ones who are going to change the world.”– Neal Thompson
158. “Success is the sum of small efforts being repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
159. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once your good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” – Malcolm Gladwell
160. “One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than preaching it.” – Knute Rockne
161. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens.”– Helen Keller
162. “Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.” – Jim Rohn
163. “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
164. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”― Albert Einstein
165. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
166. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ― Joyce Brothers
167. “Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” – John Wooden
168. “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” —Mark Twain
169. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
170. “It’s good to have an end to journey toward, but it’s the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
171. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
172. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”— Mahatma Gandhi
173. “A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.” – Charles Gordy
174. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – Peter Pan
175. “A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.” – Eeyore, Winnie-the-Pooh
176. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Matt Biondi
177. “Time to rise. Time for school! Open your eyes.” — Tammie Jones
178. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
179. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
180. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
181. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
182. “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” — Dr. Suess
183. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”― Albert Einstein
184. “You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.” — Dr. Suess
185. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ― Bette Midler
186. “Without fear there cannot be courage.”― Christopher Paolini
187. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”– Paulo Coelho
188. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
189. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will”. – Charles Dickens
190. “When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” – W. Somerset Maugham
191. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett
192. “You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” —Hillary DePiano
193. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo
194. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”– Richard Branson
195. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln
196. “There will never be another precious you! Be yourself. Stay true to your inner nature.” – Gail Mewes
197. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” –
198. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”― Steve Maraboli
199. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”– Malala Yousafzai
200. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” ― Anne Frank
201. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
202. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pele
203. “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” – George Whitefield
204. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
205. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
