Inspiring Quotes for Fifth Graders: A Collection to Motivate

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"You are courageous if you believe in yourself"

- Leela C.

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."

- Michelangelo

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

- Pamela Vaull Starr

"Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way."

- Brandy Johnson

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

- Thomas S. Monson

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

- Albert Einstein

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win."

- Max McKeown

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

- Kakuzo Okakura

"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

"The key to success is often the ability to adapt."

- Anthony Brandt

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."

- Chinese Proverb

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

- Japanese Proverb

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."

- Michael F. Staley

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."

- Helmut Schmidt

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: 'With great power comes great responsibility.'"

- Spiderman

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Winning is not just in sports, it is also about winning with yourself"

- Tallulah G.

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up."

- Batman

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"If you can’t find beauty in yourself, you haven’t looked hard enough"

- Shazia A.

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

- Swati Sharma

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"You never fail until you stop trying."

- Albert Einstein

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment."

- Michelle Obama

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other."

- Vala Afshar

"If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."

- Marty Mcfly from Back to the Future

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves."

- Paul Solarz

"Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

- Tim Notke

"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

"You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself."

- Denis Waitley

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

- Gale Sayers

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

"There is always a new beginning"

- Julia W.

"When being strong and being kind mix, nothing is impossible. Not one bit"

- Isabella P.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"If you don't give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Robert Collier

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The only way to grow is to challenge yourself."

- Ashley Tisdale

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Moliere

"When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you."

- Joel Osteen

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."

- John Wooden

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"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

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."

- Les Brown

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best."

- Robin Sharma

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."

- Émile Coué

"Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."

- Vince Lombardi

"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."

- Shakuntala Devi

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen."

- Wayne Huizenga

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."

- Virginia Burden

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

"When we empower girls hungry for education, we cultivate women who are emboldened to effect change within their communities and globally."

- Meghan Markle

"Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me."

- Superman

"Only love can truly save the world. So I stay, I fight, and I give, for the world I know can be."

- Wonder Woman

"Heroes are made by the path they choose, not the powers they are graced with."

- Iron Man

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the size of his heart."

- Zeus

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

- Wayne Dyer

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

"One day the people that don't even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."

- Johnny Depp

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward."

- Conrad Hall

"Smile and let everyone know that you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday"

- Group

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- BB King

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"It’s better to laugh together than laugh alone"

- Carolina R.

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

- James A. Froude

"The only way that we can grow is if we change."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."

- Tommy Hilfiger

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"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 a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"What if what you wanted didn’t happen, but what if it came true?"

- Katherine M.

"Life doesn't give us purpose. We give life purpose."

- The Flash

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- Gandalf

"What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning."

- Chuck Grassley

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"The fate of your planet rests not in the hands of gods. It rests in the hands of mortals."

- Thor

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

- James Cash Penney

"Intelligence is a privilege, and it needs to be used for the greater good of people."

- Dr. Octopus

"The tougher the fight, the more important the mental attitude."

- Michael Landon

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Regina Brett

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but I’ll walk through it with you"

- Emily C.

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

- Plato

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

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

"Let’s root for each other and watch each other grow."

"Be the reason someone smiles today."

"You’re going to rattle the stars, you are."

"Everything you don’t know is something you can learn."

"We may all be different fish, but at this school we swim together."

"You will never regret being kind."

"A year from now, you will wish you had started today."

"Don’t worry about failure … you only have to be right once."

"It’s a good day for a good day."

"Mistakes help me learn better."

"You belong here."

"Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming."

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

"Wake up and be awesome."

"Throw kindness around like confetti."

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye."

"To have good friends, you need to be one."

"It’s kind of fun to do the impossible."

"It doesn’t matter what others are doing, it matters what you are doing."

"Say what you mean but don’t say it mean."

"Misfits we may be, but we will rewrite history."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"The earth without art is just eh."

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

"You take up space. You matter."

"Your voice matters."

"You're never too young to dream big."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."

- Unknown