Inspiring Quotes for 10-Year-Olds: A Collection to Spark Dreams

"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before."

- Bonnie Blair

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is."

- George Lucas

"If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to."

- Jim Henson

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Mae Jemison

"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Do not judge me by my success; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest."

- Venus Williams

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King Jr

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

- Confucius

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Disney

"Dare to dream; then, decide to do."

- Annette White

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach the stars to change the world."

- Harriet Tubman

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible.'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"The future rewards those who press on."

- Barack Obama

"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Nelson Mandela

"I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving."

- John Green

"Life will never be the same because there has never been anyone like you…ever in the world."

- Nancy Tillman

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

- Buddha

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless you believe in you."

- Maddy Malhotra

"You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"Be silly, be honest, be kind."

- Anonymous

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened."

- Buddha

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Mark Twain

"Wherever there is a human being, there is the opportunity for a kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time."

- Morgan Freeman

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

- William Arthur Ward

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Nothing that’s worth anything is easy."

- Barack Obama

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

- Winston Churchill

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Sir Edmund Hillary

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- A.A. Milne

"So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains."

- Dr. Seuss

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dr. Seuss

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

- Richard Branson

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

- A.A. Milne

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."

- Rumi

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

- Chinese proverb

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Brian Herbert

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right."

- Henry Ford

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

- Dan Reeves

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

- Rikki Rogers

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- C.S. Lewis

"You are the hero of your own story."

- Joseph Campbell

"You have what it takes to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"You are capable of making a difference in the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"You are enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are."

- Sierra Boggess

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Self-belief is the first secret to success."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 success will largely depend on your belief in yourself and your determination to overcome every obstacle."

- John Di Lemme

"It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem."

- Coretta Scott King

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

- Albert Einstein

"Personal growth is not a destination, it's a journey."

- Zig Ziglar

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

"In union, there is strength."

- Aesop

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Phil Jackson

"Alone we are smart, together we are brilliant!"

- Steven Anderson

"Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results."

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"United we stand, divided we fall."

- Aesop

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."

- Edward Everett Hale

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

"Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends."

- Art Linkletter

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"It’s good to have an end to journey toward, but it’s the journey that matters in the end."

- Ursula K. LeGuin

"Climb ev’ry mountain, Ford ev’ry stream, Follow ev’ry rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream."

- Sound of Music

"We grow great by dreams."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Confucius

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."

- José N. Harris

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something new."

- Barney Saltzberg

"You grow through what you go through."

- Tyrese Gibson

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

- Swati Sharma

"Maturity is when you stop blaming others for your problems and take ownership of your own life."

- Brian Tracy

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive."

- Jean Chatzky

"Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well."

- Ruth Simmons

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored."

- Tim Fargo

"We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve."

- Bill Gates

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

- Ken Blanchard

"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

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

- Emily Dickensen

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better."

- Elon Musk

"Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Life is not perfect. Life is not easy . Life is good."

- The Life is Good Company

"True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes."

- Daniel Kahneman

"The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up."

- Dumbo

"It is being honest about my pain that makes me invincible."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."

- Walt Whitman

"May you live all the days of your life."

- Jonathan Swift

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hearts."

- Charles Dickens

". . . that best portion of a good man’s life. / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love."

- William Wadsworth

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world."

- E. B. White

"You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."

- Irish Proverb

"Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."

- Alice Munro

"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The years teach much the days never know."

- Emerson

"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

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

"If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead."

- Gusteau

"Wisdom begins with wonder."

- Socrates

"When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming."

- Dory

"There are no wrong answers, only learning opportunities."

- Anonymous

"Time’s fun when you’re eating flies."

- Kermit the Frog

"Don't wait for opportunity. Create it."

- Chris Grosser

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

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Kind words are like magnets that stick to you. They should make you look beautiful."

"Every star must shine brightly to light up the world."

"When you work together, impossible tasks become easy."

"To become a butterfly, a caterpillar has to work for it."

"When you believe in yourself, the world believes in you, too."

"There's nothing in this world you can't do. There are only those things you shouldn't do."

"You are the captain of your ship. Show the world just how far you will sail."

"You can do anything. You just need to believe you can."

"The key to success is believing in yourself."

"Doing the right thing takes bravery. Be brave."

"To become better takes courage and work. But it's always there for you to grab."

"Yes, it's hard, but it's worth it."

"To find your talent, you need to seek it."

"Dreams are made by doing."

"Even if you fall, every step gets you a little closer."

"It's not that every great person in history didn't fail. They just didn't stop trying until they got it right."

"You will always succeed if you never quit trying."

"It's okay to fail. What matters is that you keep trying."

"Falling is part of the process of learning to get back up."

"There is music all around you. Find the courage to dance."

"Giving inspires others to give as well. Your kindness is never wasted in this world."

"Every first step gets you closer to success."

"When the mountain to your dreams is too challenging to climb alone, just ask for help."

"When you think you can, anything is possible."

"You have endless possibilities in life. Don't let 'I can't' stop you from reaching for them."

"The road to success is never smooth. But you learn from the hills and bumps along the way."

"You hold the key to power by opening a book and learning."

"The only failure is not trying."

"Every day is a fresh opportunity to learn something new and exciting."

"If you can't do it alone. All you need to do is find friends."

"If you believe in yourself, others will follow."

"Each new and exciting story began with one person and a dream."

"Every president was a kid with a dream that became a big reality."

"Today is all about you. Show the world what you're made of."

"Good behavior is like glitter. It adds sparkle to everyone you touch."

"Every day is a new opportunity to add a bright rainbow to your life."

"Your heart is a beautiful masterpiece. You add a new color every day."

"You are a brave little lion. The whole world is going to hear you roar."

"Make sure to sparkle."

"Each day is a new chance to make a difference."

"Start every day with a deep breath and a can-do attitude."

"Of course you can do it. You just have to keep trying."

"You have the power to change the world one kind word at a time."

"You inspire me to be the best me I can be. Thank you."

"You are braver, smarter, and stronger than you realize."

"You have the power to change someone's day with your words and actions."

"You are an amazing and unique person who brightens my life every day."

"You are glitter and rainbows. Never lose your sparkle."

"There is never a dull moment with the sparkle and shine you bring to life."

"Winning and losing aren't important. It's how much fun you had in the process."

"Every time you strike out, you learn something new about yourself."

"Dream big! And when you accomplish it. Dream bigger."

"Every day is an awesome day when you start it with an awesome attitude."

"You are strong. You are so brave. You can do anything. All you have to do is try."

"Keep trying. You'll get it."

"You are so loved. You're kind. You are so smart! You're a great learner."

"I'm proud of you. You should feel proud of yourself."

"Good job! I like the way you listen. You play so well with other kids."

"You can do this!"

"Smile! You are amazing."

"You are amazing. I love how unique you are."

"Every star shines a little differently. Your uniqueness is what makes you shine."

"To be a hero, you must choose the right path."

"Greatness is built on the words, 'I can try.'"

"Falling down is part of the journey. You can learn anything you put your mind to."

"Doing your best is what really matters."

"I love that you tried something difficult. You can do hard things."

"Be yourself. You are so loveable."

"That was really hard, but you did it!"

"Every piece of you is unique and special."

"The hard choices are the most important."

"If you want something to change, change it."

"You can't choose everything, but you can choose your attitude."

"Today is a new day to try again. Keep trying, and you'll get there."

"The most important thing is you believe in yourself."

"You can be proud of all the things you've learned."

"Don't be afraid to dream big. It's okay to take your time. You'll get there eventually."

"The most important thing is that you are proud of yourself."

"You are the key to your success."

"You don't have to be perfect. You just have to be you."

"Life will take you to amazing places if you have the courage to try."

"Not every choice is going to be the right one. But, it's the wrong choices that teach you the most."

"You are the narrator of your next great adventure."

"True heroes work hard to make their dreams a reality."

"Every step you take in life isn't going to be easy. But it will be worth it."

"The theme of your story is up to you. Make it an epic adventure."

"The story of your life is written one word at a time."

"Don't get too ahead of yourself. A smile and a positive attitude can take you a lot more places than a frown and an 'I can't.'"

"Life is a gift."

"We're better together!"

- Unknown

"My future is bright."

- Unknown

"You are strong because you've been weak. You are fearless because you've been afraid. You are wise because you've been foolish."

- Unknown

"You are the artist of your own life. Don't hand the paintbrush to anyone else."

- Unknown

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

"Together everyone achieves more."

- Unknown

"I can achieve' starts with 'I believe.'"

"Your growth is limited only by how much you're willing to put in the effort."

- Unknown