100+ Inspirational Quotes for Preschoolers to Spark Joy and Confidence

### Discover a Treasure Trove of Inspirational Quotes for Preschoolers In the early years of life, words have the power to shape young minds and hearts. This carefully curated collection of over 100 inspirational quotes is designed especially for preschoolers, offering messages of courage, kindness, imagination, and self-belief. ### Why Inspirational Quotes Matter for Preschoolers Preschoolers are at a pivotal stage of development where encouragement and positive affirmations can boost their confidence and curiosity. These quotes, from beloved figures like Walt Disney, Maya Angelou, and Albert Einstein, are simple yet profound, making them perfect for young children to understand and embrace. ### How to Use These Quotes Parents, teachers, and caregivers can use these quotes as daily affirmations, classroom posters, or bedtime reflections. They serve as gentle reminders that every child is unique, capable, and worthy of love and respect. Dive into this inspiring collection and watch your preschoolers light up with hope, joy, and the courage to dream big!

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Belief in Self

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

- Christian D. Larson

Belief in Self

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

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

- Dr. Seuss

Education

"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

Belief in Self

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Resilience

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

Self-esteem

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

- Dr. Seuss

Independence

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

Imagination

"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

Ambition

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

- Earl Nightingale

Aspirations

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"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

Aspirations

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Ambition

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

- Oscar Wilde

Education

"Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play."

- Magda Gerber

Education

"Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn."

- O. Fred Donaldson

Learning

"Since the jobs that our preschoolers will do probably don’t exist yet, our priority is to teach them the skills to adapt and inquire and question and cooperate…life skills. So much more useful than rigid concepts such as the alphabet."

- Caroline Bellouse

Education

"Play is the shortest route between children and their creative calling."

- Vince Gowmon

Creativity

"The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves."

- Roald Dahl

Education

"Putting your students’ emotional needs first is important because without feeling safe and understood, no instructional strategy will be effective."

- Jasper Fox, Sr.

Well-being

"Be sure that in your educating you are not manufacturing obedient citizens, but rather unleashing powerful, creative souls."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does ‘just for fun’ and things that are ‘educational.’ The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play."

- Penelope Leach

Education

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

- Mother Teresa

Love

"Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world."

- Lois Lowry

Aspirations

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together."

- Scott Hayden

Education

"Children more than ever, need opportunities to be in their bodies in the world – jumping rope, bicycling, stream hopping, and fort building. It’s this engagement between limbs of the body and bones of the earth where true balance and centeredness emerge."

- David Sobel

Well-being

"I believe that to teach them effectively you must touch their hearts long before you begin to teach their minds"

- Vicki Savini

Education

"I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy. Can anybody argue about the benefits for a child who is appreciated and enjoyed for what she can do and does naturally? …I believe this issue is so basic, so important, that it cannot be overstated."

- Magda Gerber

Education

"If we love our children and want them to thrive, we must allow them more time and opportunity to play, not less. Yet policymakers and powerful philanthropists are continuing to push us in the opposite direction — toward more schooling, more testing, more adult direction of children, and less opportunity for free play."

- Dr. Peter Gray

Education

"When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems."

- Adele Faber

Education

"Too much leading and we create anxiety for children. Too much following and the same is true. In wisdom we find balance between the two."

- Vince Gowmon

Balance

"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul."

- Friedrich Froebel

Education

"When our little people are overwhelmed by big emotions it is our job to share our calm, not join their chaos."

- L.R. Knost

Well-being

"So often children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes. Yet, us adults have them all the time. None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves."

- Rebecca Eanes

Empathy

"While it is important to educate children, what is much more pressing is the need to love them. When education becomes more important than love, it is no longer education at all. For, tending to the delicate spirit of children is foundational if education is to fulfill its intended purpose of serving the greater whole."

- Vince Gowmon

Love

"It’s not so much what children learn through play, but what they won’t learn if we don’t give them the chance to play. Many functional skills like literacy and arithmetic can be learned either through play or through instruction – the issue is the amount of stress on the child. However, many coping skills like compassion, self-regulation, self-confidence, the habit of active engagement, and the motivation to learn and be literate cannot be instructed. They can only be learned through self-directed experience (i.e. play)."

- Susan J. Oliver

Learning

"Either we spend time meeting children’s emotional needs by filling their cup with love, or we spend time dealing with behaviors caused from their unmet needs. Either way, we spend the time."

- Pam Leo

Love

"I’m more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives."

- Seymour Simon

Inspiration

"Everything we do as teachers must ensure that the child’s inherent desire to learn is kept alive."

- Robert John Meehan

Motivation

"True play is child-initiated and child-directed. It can occur on a blank playground. It can occur with a few tires. Children can play – and do play – when all they are given is space and time."

- Heather Shumaker

Learning

"Remind yourself daily: While education is useful, it’s love that children and the world need. A deeply loved child with only some education will go much further than a well educated child lacking love."

- Vince Gowmon

Love

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."

- Leo Buscaglia

Learning

"Trust children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted."

- John Holt

Belief in Self

"Do not train children to learn by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

- Plato

Education

"The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."

- Alice Miller

Empathy

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns"

- Rita Dunn

Education

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solutions, not retribution."

- L.R. Knost

Responsibility

"Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries."

- H. Jackson Brown

Creativity

"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments – tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become."

- Louis Pasteur

Respect

"If we want children to become creative leaders then we must learn to follow their lead at an early age."

- Vince Gowmon

Leadership

"I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized."

- Haim G. Ginott

Responsibility

"What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Belief in Self

"It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts."

- Dalai Lama

Love

"The best way to preserve a child’s vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours."

- Jacob Liberman

Respect

"We have forgotten that children are designed by nature to learn through self-directed play and exploration, and so, more and more, we deprive them of freedom to learn."

- Peter O. Gray

Learning

"This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop."

- Maria Montessori

Education

"The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education."

- Rudolf Steiner

Education

"Children learn and listen more willingly when they are met with kindness, empathy and patience; when their core need for connection or attachment is met."

- Vince Gowmon

Empathy

"Movement is the door to learning."

- Paul E. Dennison

Learning

"Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience."

- Joseph Cornell

Learning

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"Rushing children’s development is a formula for turning them into who they are not. Letting them play is a kind means of meeting them where they are and encouraging their authentic unfolding."

- Vince Gowmon

Personal Growth

"What is essential is to realize that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it."

- John Holt

Learning

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

- Peggy O’Mara

Education

"When we deny children play, we are denying them the right to understand the world."

- Erika & Nicholas Christakis

Learning

"I cherish the occasions when my daughter manages to do something for the first time, or does something better than she’s ever done it before. But I try to resist the knee-jerk tendency to say, ‘Good job!’ because I don’t want to dilute her joy. I want her to share her pleasure with me, not look to me for a verdict. I want her to exclaim, ‘I did it!’ (which she often does) instead of asking me uncertainly, ‘Was that good?’"

- Alfie Kohn

Motivation

"So much developmental trauma can be avoided if we simply give children the right to exercise their natural right to play, to move, to explore the outdoors unsupervised… if we let children be children!"

- Vince Gowmon

Well-being

"Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make."

- Paul Berg

Inspiration

"Children’s emotions are as real as yours. Just because they might get sad over the colour of their cup, does not make their feelings any less real."

- Rebekah Lipp

Empathy

"Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals."

- Janusz Korczak

Respect

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."

- Marian Wright Edelman

Morality

"Don’t educate a child to become something or someone, educate to help them explore and celebrate who they already are."

- Vince Gowmon

Self-awareness

"There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children."

- Kofi Annan

Respect

"The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn."

- Maria Montessori

Motivation

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

- L.R. Knost

Love

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Learning

"Teaching is learning. They are inseparable. The humility of a teacher is born when this is realized. Only then does teaching really begin."

- Vince Gowmon

Learning

"A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it."

- Frank A. Clark

Love

"Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions."

- Alfie Kohn

Learning

"We keep thinking as adults that we need to control the way they do things. I wish we’d get out of that. They know how to play, they know how to structure their own play – they need that time to grow responsibly."

- Debbie Rhea

Learning

"The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six."

- Maria Montessori

Education

"Children come into the world exquisitely designed, and strongly motivated, to educate themselves. They don’t need to be forced to learn; in fact, coercion undermines their natural desire to learn."

- Peter Gray

Learning

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

Education

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

Awareness

"The real magic wand is the child’s own mind."

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Belief in Self

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

- Pablo Picasso

Education

"It is not intellect but rather imagination that is the source of creativity. What if imagination was nurtured as much if not more in school?"

- Vince Gowmon

Creativity

"The ultimate gift we can give the world is to grow our tiny humans into adult humans who are independent thinkers, compassionate doers, conscious questioners, radical innovators, and passionate peacemakers. Our world doesn’t need more adults who blindly serve the powerful because they’ve been trained to obey authority without question. Our world needs more adults who challenge and question and hold the powerful accountable."

- L.R. Knost

Leadership

"If it hasn’t been in the hand and body, it can’t be in the brain."

- Bev Bos

Learning

"If we want children to play BIG in the world, then let’s let them play in small ways to start."

- Vince Gowmon

Learning

"Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better."

- Magda Gerber

Learning

"A ‘naughty child’ doesn’t exist—a child who acts out is simply a child with unmet needs."

- Birgitte Coste

Awareness

"Movement isn’t a break from learning; movement is learning, and the opportunities for thoughtful exploration in the classroom are endless."

- Aleta Margolis

Learning

"Teach children what to think and you limit them to your ideas. Teach children how to think and their ideas are unlimited."

- Sandra Parks

Education

"A child learns when time. Some want to read at age three and some don’t care until age eight. There is no right or wrong way, no best timeline. If a child shows no interest in reading or math, it’s because he or she has something far more important to explore."

- Vince Gowmon

Learning

"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education

"When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero."

- Fred Rogers

Creativity

"Our only limitation in realizing tomorrow will be our current doubts."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Walking from failure to failure with enthusiasm is what defines success."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"Growing up and becoming who you are takes courage."

- E.E. Cummings

Personal Growth

"Dare to listen to your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you aspire to be."

- Steve Jobs

Belief in Self

"The more you read, the more knowledge you will acquire. The more you know, the farther you’ll get."

- Dr. Seuss

Learning

"Education is not about filling a pail, but about starting a fire."

- William Butler Yeats

Education

"Learning cannot be acquired by accident; it requires ardent pursuit and diligent maintenance."

- Abigail Adams

Learning

"It is not what is poured into a student, but what is planted."

- Linda Conway

Education

"Learning can’t happen by accident; it needs zealous pursuit and constant upkeep."

- Malcolm Forbes

Learning

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

Creativity

"True education aims to develop both intelligence and character."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Education

"No one ever tried anything new if they never made a mistake."

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development."

- Jim Rohn

Personal Growth

"The greatest achievement is to be able to be who you are in a world that is constantly trying to mold you into someone else."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-confidence

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

Education

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Motivation

"Education never comes to an end. You don’t just finish your education by finishing a book, getting a passing grade on an exam, etc. From the time you are born until the time you pass away, your entire life is a learning process."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning

"Education is the ticket to the future because those who prepare for it today will own it in the future."

- Malcolm X

Education

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

- Dr. Seuss

Self-awareness

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contribution

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

- Dory

Resilience

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become."

- Dr Suess

Optimism

"Don't fear failure. Be afraid of not having the chance, you have the chance!"

- Sally Carrera

Motivation

"You can’t focus on what’s going wrong. There’s always a way to turn things around."

- Joy

Positivity

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

Happiness

"Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world."

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

Empowerment

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

Positivity

"Never doubt yourself, it will only hold you back."

- J.M. Barrie

Self-confidence

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

- Mewtwo

Personal Growth

"Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do."

- John Wooden

Courage

"Our fate lives within us; you only have to be brave enough to see it."

- Merida

Courage

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief in Self

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Trust your head, but don't be afraid to follow your heart."

- Alice in Wonderland

Courage

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

- Mickey Mouse

Aspirations

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Transformation

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Optimism

"The future rewards those who press on."

- Barack Obama

Perseverance

"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

Hope

"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

Leadership

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

Resilience

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

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

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

- Lucille Ball

Love

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

- Maddy Malhotra

Belief in Self

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

- Kurt Cobain

Self-awareness

"Be silly, be honest, be kind."

- Anonymous

Compassion

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Aesop

Compassion

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

- Mark Twain

Compassion

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

- Duke Ellington

Motivation

"Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway."

- Meg Cabot

Bravery

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

Resilience

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

- Babe Ruth

Courage

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

- John A. Shedd

Courage

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do."

- Henry Ford

Bravery

"Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself."

- Luna Lovegood

Self-awareness

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Integrity

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."

- Jess Lair

Education

"The word ‘education’ comes from the Latin ‘educere’ = e- (out of) + -ducere (to draw). Education is not just about putting information in. We have forgotten that it, in fact, begins in the child’s heart."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man; body, mind and spirit."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Education

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

- Stacia Tauscher

Awareness

"Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

- Jim Henson

Education

"Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine."

- Yawar Baig

Education

"A child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

- Casals

Belief in Self

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults."

- F. Douglas

Education

"To take children seriously is to value them for who they are right now rather than adults-in-the-making."

- Alfie Kohn

Awareness

"Every day, in a 100 small ways, our children ask, ‘Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter?’ Their behavior often reflects our response."

- L.R. Knost

Awareness

"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."

- Paulo Coelho

Inspiration

"You cannot make people learn. You can only provide the right conditions for learning to happen."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching."

- Ashley Montagu

Love

"Remember: everyone in the classroom has a story that leads to misbehavior or defiance. 9 times out of 10, the story behind the misbehavior won’t make you angry. It will break your heart."

- Annette Breaux

Empathy

"The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment."

- Maria Montessori

Education

"If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow."

- Alfie Kohn

Well-being

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

Education

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

Inspiration

"Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves."

- Jean Piaget

Education

"Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me."

- Barbara Coloroso

Empowerment

"If you trust play, you will not have to control your child’s development as much. Play will raise the child in ways you can never imagine."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

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

- Swati Sharma

Self-confidence

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

- Benjamin Spock

Belief in Self

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

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

- Marcus Garvey

Belief in Self

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

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

- Albert Einstein

Perseverance

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

- Confucius

Resilience

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"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."

- Pelé

Success

"Believe in yourself, not only in swimming but in life itself; you must always have fun and keep an open mind; if you’re not enjoying it, don’t do it; life is too short."

- Debbie Meyer

Belief in Self

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

- Tommy Lasorda

Determination

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

- Newt Gingrich

Perseverance

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

- Winston Churchill

Success

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

- Henry Ford

Belief in Self

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

- Peter Drucker

Vision

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

- Roy T. Bennett

Motivation

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

- Robert Collier

Success

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

- Beverly Sills

Success

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

- Vidal Sassoon

Hard Work

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

- Og Mandino

Resilience

"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

Perseverance

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Jim Watkins

Perseverance

"Have faith in yourself and everything you are. Know that something greater than any obstacle exists within you."

- Christian D. Larson

Belief in Self

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

Persistence

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

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

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

- Ashley Tisdale

Personal Growth

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

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

- Elon Musk

Ambition

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

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

Resilience

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

Belief

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

- Thomas Paine

Courage

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Adversity

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

- Molière

Courage

"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

Resilience

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

- Jimmy Dean

Change

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Courage

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

- Zig Ziglar

Aspirations

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

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

- John Wooden

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Gary Player

Hard Work

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Resilience

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

- Ken Blanchard

Teamwork

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

- Dan Reeves

Growth

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

- Virginia Burden

Teamwork

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

- African Proverb

Teamwork

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

- Vala Afshar

Teamwork

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

- Rikki Rogers

Strength

"Today you are You, and there is no one alive who is Youer than You."

- Dr. Seuss

Self-confidence

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

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

- J.K. Rowling

Resilience

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

- Helen Keller

Resilience

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

- Dr. Seuss

Self-confidence

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

- Ann Landers

Persistence

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

- Tim Notke

Hard Work

"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

Success

"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

Resilience

"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

Hard Work

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

- Warren Buffett

Self-improvement

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

- Gale Sayers

Goals

"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

Motivation

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

Adversity

"You are the hero of your own story."

- Joseph Campbell

Belief in Self

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Empowerment

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in Self

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Belief in Self

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

- John Di Lemme

Success

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

- Jim Rohn

Change

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

- Les Brown

Aspirations

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

- Denis Waitley

Self-improvement

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Ambition

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Growth

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

Goals

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

- Winston Churchill

Change

"Failure is not fatal, and success is not final.: it is the courage to continue those counts."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

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

- Michelle Obama

Aspirations

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

- Zig Ziglar

Personal Growth

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in Self

"Life is made up of 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Choice

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

- Anthony Brandt

Adaptation

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

- Warren Buffett

Personal Growth

"Success is measured not by how high you have climbed, but by how you have made a positive difference in the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

Success

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

- Brian Herbert

Learning

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

"Being brave means knowing something is scary, difficult, or dangerous and doing it anyway."

- Mandy Davis

Bravery

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

- W. Clement Stone

Goals

"I discovered that courage was the triumph over fear, not the absence of it."

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

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

- Peter Drucker

Vision

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

- Thomas S. Monson

Adaptation

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

- Albert Einstein

Adaptation

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

- Gail Sheehy

Growth

"Courage does not always yell. At times, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

- Arnold Palmer

Perseverance

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"Don’t let what you can’t do keep you from doing what you can."

- John Wooden

Motivation

"Success is not final, and failure is not fatal: what matters is the determination to keep going."

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

"It makes no difference how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop."

- Confucius

Perseverance

"Each experience in which we truly stop to face fear gives us strength, courage, and confidence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid."

- Col. David Hackworth

Courage

"It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self."

- D.W. Winnicott

Creativity

"To effectively teach a child one must reach the child in mind-body-heart, not just intellect, not just the linear-left brain we make such a priority."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements."

- Maria Montessori

Learning

"It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love."

- Sigmund Freud

Love

"Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is known, or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds?"

- Jean Piaget

Creativity

"We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way."

- John Holt

Learning

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

- B.B. King

Education

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

Learning from Mistakes

"The more adults turn play into a project, the more it loses its very essence. The gifts derived from play are suffocated by unnecessary structure and hovering, leaving little room for the child to learn, develop and enjoy his or her explorations."

- Vince Gowmon

Learning

"When you teach a child something, you take away forever the chance for him to discover it himself."

- John Piaget

Learning

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

Hope

"Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play."

- Plato

Learning

"Learning is alive when experiential, relevant and joyful. It is all but dead when limited to disassociated rationale and sedentariness."

- Vince Gowmon

Learning

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

- Richard Branson

Learning

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

- Henry Ford

Failure

"Fear is the only thing we have to fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

- Albert Einstein

Integrity

"The art of teaching lies in knowing the balance between structure and flow, telling and asking, speaking and silence."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"Children first realize they can make a difference when parents listen, then respond with sensitivity."

- Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

Empathy

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

- Charles Darwin

Adaptation

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

- Clay P. Bedford

Inspiration

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

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"Follow your heart and intuition with courage. They somehow know what you aspire to be."

- Steve Jobs

Courage

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence

"Stop trying to turn children into someone they are not. Instead, let them unfold into who no human can imagine them to be."

- Vince Gowmon

Self-awareness

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

- Dr. Seuss

Imagination

"Believe in yourself and your abilities. Recognize that something greater than any obstacle exists within you."

- Christian D. Larson

Belief in Self

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

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

- Chinese proverb

Education

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

- Sun Tzu

New Beginnings

"You’re braver than you think, stronger than you appear, and smarter than you realize."

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday."

- Kahlil Gibran

Love

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- John Wooden

Belief in Self

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awareness

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-awareness

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Conrad Hall

Personal Growth

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

- William James

Contribution

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

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

- Sir Edmund Hillary

Personal Growth

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

- Sam Levenson

Motivation

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

- Harry Golden

Hard Work

"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

Hard Work

"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

Aspirations

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

- Pamela Vaull Starr

Aspirations

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

- Brandy Johnson

Aspirations

"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

Change

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

- Max McKeown

Adaptation

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

- Alan Watts

Resilience

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

Adaptation

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

- Bob Goff

Adaptation

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

Adaptation

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Adaptation

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

- Chinese Proverb

Adaptation

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

- Japanese Proverb

Resilience

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

- Victor Hugo

Change

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

- Michael F. Staley

Personal Growth

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

- Helmut Schmidt

Growth

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Self-awareness

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

- Morihei Ueshiba

Growth

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

- Émile Coué

Positivity

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- James A. Froude

Self-improvement

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

- C. JoyBell C.

Change

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

- John R. Wooden

Empowerment

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."

- Peter Marshall

Contribution

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."

- Steve Jobs

Ambition

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

- G.K. Nielson

Success

"Perfection is boring. Constant improvement is beautiful."

- Misty Copeland

Growth

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

- José N. Harris

Personal Growth

"You grow through what you go through."

- Tyrese Gibson

Growth

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

- Dumbo

New Beginnings

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

- Nayyirah Waheed

Courage

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

- Ken Blanchard

Courage

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

- Bill Gates

Growth

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

- Tim Fargo

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Daniel Kahneman

Learning from Mistakes

"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

Personal Growth

"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

Change

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

- Albert Einstein

Change

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

- Brian Tracy

Responsibility

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"In union, there is strength."

- Aesop

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

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

- Phil Jackson

Teamwork

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

- Steven Anderson

Teamwork

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Teamwork

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

Teamwork

"United we stand, divided we fall."

- Aesop

Teamwork

"Explain to me again: how come we treat reading and mathematics as more important than learning to get along with one another?"

- Pennie Brownlee

Relationships

"Classroom management is not about having the right rules… it’s about having the right relationships."

- @SteeleThoughts

Relationships

"Deep meaning lies often in childish play."

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

Creativity

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love."

- Mildred B. Vermont

Love

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

- Angela Schwindt

Learning

"Children dance before they know there is anything that isn’t music."

- William Stafford

Joy

"Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times."

- Allen Klein

Gratitude

"The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike."

- H. L. Mencken

Inspiration

"Your image of the child is where teaching begins."

- Loris Malaguzzi

Education

"Learning is not a spectator sport."

- D. Blocher

Education

"When one teaches, two learn."

- Robert Heinlein

Education

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

Hard Work

"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

Self-awareness

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- Harry S Truman

Success

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

- Aristotle

Teamwork

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Teamwork

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

- Paul Solarz

Teamwork

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

"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

Leadership

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

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

- Frank Ocean

Hard Work

"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

Hard Work

"If you want to be happy, tie it to a goal rather than to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

Happiness

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

- Coco Chanel

Courage

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

- Rabindranath Tagore

Adaptation

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

- Venus Williams

Goals

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

- William Arthur Ward

Learning

"Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one."

- Grandmother Willow

Courage

"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom in the pupils."

- Ever Garrison

Education

"Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is."

- Yoda

Wisdom

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"The trouble with over-structuring is that it discourages exploration."

- Jay Giedd

Education

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."

- Lily Tomlin

Education

"As with everything else about children’s behavior, there’s nothing like a good role model. If you value play, your child will, too."

- Madeline Levine

Inspiration

"You don’t remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go."

- Lenore Skenazy

Personal Growth

"Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don’t know."

- R. Verdi

Education

"When you are born into a world where you don’t fit in, it’s because you were born to help create a new one."

- Anonymous

Inspiration

"Anything you can teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, often in ways that are more enjoyable for children."

- Cathy James

Education

"An environmental-based education movement—at all levels of education—will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration but a portal to the wider world."

- Richard Louv

Environment

"A spirited, unruly student is preferable. It’s much easier to direct passion than to try and inspire it."

- Joan Desmond

Motivation

"You and I are a team. There is nothing more important than friendship."

- Mike Wazowski

Connection to Earth

"Remember you're the one who can fill the world with sunshine."

- Snow White

Positivity

"We are raised in a culture that values expertise over exploration."

- Nina Wise

Philosophy

"The secret to happiness is not success. The secret to success is happiness."

- Albert Schweitzer

Happiness

"Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live."

- Thomas Berry

Education

"The more you teach / push those things that can be measured, the more kids will grow up feeling like they don’t measure up."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"Children always learn, but not necessarily what you want them to learn."

- Dr.Lillian Katz

Learning

"If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs."

- Nicolette Sowder

Education

"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun."

- Mary Poppins

Joy

"Wisdom listens; knowledge speaks."

- Jimi Hendrix

Wisdom

"Children grow up hearing how broken the environment is, how broken beyond repair. Plant strawberries together, make wild medicines, paint the sunrise. Show them proof that for every act of destruction, they can sow a seed, however small, of beauty."

- Nicolette Sowder

Environment

"In this modern world where activity is stressed to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked."

- Margaret Wise Brown

Well-being

"Loving what you do is the only way to produce excellent work."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet."

- Linda Darling-Hammond

Education

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

Peace

"With children, it is the joint moments of delight that build the social brain."

- Mariah Moser

Education

"Grown men can learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show them many things that older people miss."

- Black Elk

Wisdom

"No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship."

- James Comer

Education

"The activities that are the easiest, cheapest, and most fun to do – such as singing, playing games, reading, storytelling, and just talking and listening – are also the best for child development."

- Jerome Singer

Education

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Responsibility

"All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants"

- J.W. Gardner

Education

"Children don’t need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear."

- Emma Thompson

Empathy

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

- Bonnie Blair

Achievement

"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is where no one else has ever been."

- Alan Alda

Creativity

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

Service

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

- John Green

Self-esteem

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

- Nancy Tillman

Self-esteem

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

- Dalai Lama XIV

Inner Peace

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

- Buddha

Compassion

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

- Annette White

Aspirations

"Rather than books and lectures, nature itself is children’s best teacher."

- Coffey

Nature

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Self-esteem

"Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas…during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations."

- Judith Roden

Learning

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

- Buddha

Compassion

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

- Desmond Tutu

Compassion

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

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

- Morgan Freeman

Compassion

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

- William Arthur Ward

Compassion

"Children don’t know how to ask for what they don’t know they need. Their asking comes in the form of behaviour."

- Bonnie Harris

Awareness

"When you know better, you do better."

- Maya Angelou

Personal Growth

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

"Don’t believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody."

- Nike

Self-confidence

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

- Alvin Toffler

Learning

"The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them – the things they need to know – and forget the rest."

- Daniel Quinn

Learning

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

- Ronald Reagan

Peace

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

- Bob Talbert

Education

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

- Tony Stark

Courage

"I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!"

- David Vitter

Education

"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."

- Ray L. Wilbur

Hope

"Children make your life important."

- Erma Bombeck

Happiness

"There can never be too much nature inside a classroom. It is the antidote to the fast-paced, stressful world in which many young children live. Equally important, it encourages an appreciation of the natural world on which we depend."

- Condie Ward

Environment

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

- Confucius

Perseverance

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark Van Doren

Education

"Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up."

- Jesse Jackson

Compassion

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"If it matters to you, you’ll find a way."

- Charlie Gilkey

Determination

"Although the brave do not live forever, the cautious do not live at all."

- Meg Cabot

Taking Risks

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

- Henry Adams

Education

"A hero is someone who has given their life to something greater than themselves."

- Joseph Campbell

Contribution

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

Education

"Strong-willed children become adults who change the world as long as can hang on for the ride and resist the temptation to ‘tame’ the spirit out of them."

- Sarah Stogryn

Strength

"Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives."

- Thomas Berry

Environment

"Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away."

- John Lennon

Peace

"You can have a lot of fun when you have confidence. And when you’re having fun, you can accomplish amazing things."

- Joe Namath

Self-confidence

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

Belief in Self

"The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child’s world."

- Janet Gonzalez-Mena

Connection to Earth

"No pressure, no diamonds."

- Thomas Carlyle

Hard Work

"Boldness be my friend."

- William Shakespeare

Boldness

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

Focus

"If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor.  I would rather hire a tennis coach."

- Deepak Chopra

Belief in Self

"Each day provides its own gifts."

- Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire

Responsibility

"We all can dance when we find music we love."

- Giles Andreae

Joy

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

Happiness

"Ask any child development expert, and they will tell you that children do not develop in a straight line. There are no average children. There are no standard children."

- Cassi Clausen

Awareness

"Schooling prepares children for jobs, yet getting a job is not what life is about. Life exists in the space between all we deem important."

- Vince Gowmon

Philosophy

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

- Carl Sagan

Inspiration

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history."

- Ray Merritt

Future

"Never look back, darling. It distracts for the now."

- Edna Mode

Focus

"I wake up in the morning torn between the desire to save the world and to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

- E.B White

Balance

"Instead of teaching children to get ‘there’, why not let them be here? Where is ‘there’ anyway? The world needs more ‘here’ than ‘there’."

- Vince Gowmon

Education

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

- Decouvertes

Insight

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

- Gusteau

Awareness

"The soul is healed by being with children."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Healing

"Perhaps if tearful little boys were comforted instead of shamed there wouldn’t be so many angry men struggling to express and empathize with emotions."

- Lelia Scholl

Empathy

"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler."

- Albert Einstein

Simplicity

"Asking kids to meet target on standardized tests is like making them meet a sales quota. Our kids are not commodities."

- K.L. Nielsen

Awareness

"Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls."

- Erin Kenny

Learning

"If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong."

- Groucho Marx

Joy

"What matters is not what happens to you, but how you react to it."

- Epictetus

Resilience

"What an educator does in teaching is allow students to become themselves."

- Paulo Freire

Empowerment

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."

- Knights of Pythagoras

Courage

"You do better when you know better."

- Maya Angelou

Learning

"The greatest glory in life is not never falling, but rising each time we fall."

- Nelson Mandela

Resilience

"Surround yourself with people who will propel you forward."

- Oprah Winfrey

Relationships

"When action is taken to achieve a dream, it becomes a goal."

- Bo Bennett

Goals

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

- Robert Fulghum

Self-awareness

"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

Compassion

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

- Sam Levenson

Time Management

"The more you read, the more you will learn. The more you know, the further you will progress."

- Dr. Seuss

Learning

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

- Plato

Leadership

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Compassion

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you must start if you want to become great."

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

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

- Vince Lombardi

Leadership

"Never let the odds prevent you from doing what you know deep down in your heart you were meant to do."

- H. Jackson Brown

Determination

"To awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge is the supreme art of the teacher."

- Albert Einstein

Joy

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Empowerment

"If you close your eyes, you’ll miss the best things."

- Dr. Seuss

Awareness

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

Creativity

"To do great work, you must first love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"You can go in any direction you want."

- Dr. Seuss

Choice

"My message is to have fun. Be silly. You’re allowed to be silly. There’s nothing wrong with that."

- Jimmy Fallon

Joy

"Dream big because every goal starts with a dream, and reach high because stars are hidden in your soul"

- Pamela Vaull Starr

Aspirations

"Be yourself and have fun."

- Richard Lowe

Self-confidence

"A teacher’s job is to teach students to see vitality in themselves."

- Joseph Campbell

Empowerment

"Those who believe in the beauty of their dreams will have a bright future."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Hope

"Just play, have fun, and enjoy the game."

- Michael Jordan

Joy

"When we find music we like, we can all dance."

- Giles Andreae

Joy

"A good teacher will explain. The excellent teacher demonstrates. A great teacher inspires."

- William Arthur Ward

Inspiration

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I believe that’s when you’re much successful; you have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

Motivation

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me, and be my friend."

- Albert Camus

Relationships

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

Learning

"Wisdom begins with wonder."

- Socrates

Awareness

"I really love being human. But some days I really wish I could be fairy."

- Greta, age 4

Imagination

"I only do this because I’m having fun, and the day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away."

- Heath Ledger

Joy

"Reclaim your sense of adventure and have some fun; don’t take every moment of your life so seriously; allow yourself to enjoy life."

- Akiroq Brost

Joy

"Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity."

- Ricky Gervais

Joy

"All that matters is that I’m having fun, being myself, and doing what I love."

- James Charles

Joy

"I enjoy fighting for what I believe in and having fun while doing so."

- Andrew Breitbart

Joy

"The key is to have fun; the moment it becomes a grind, it’s over."

- Barry Gibb

Joy

"People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is a big part of that."

- John Lasseter

Joy

"When you’re having fun doing something, you don’t stop to wonder why."

- Marty Rubin

Joy

"As long as you do things with a smile on your face and have fun, you’re being unfiltered."

- Bretman Rock

Joy

"I’ve prioritized mental health, fun, and doing things that make me laugh."

- Philipa Soo

Joy

"Summer means good times and good sunshine, going on the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun."

- Brian Wilson

Joy

"I’m doing exactly what I want to do, and I’m having a good time doing it."

- David Johansen

Joy

"If you follow all the rules, you’ll miss all the fun."

- Katharine Hepburn

Joy

"I’m having a great time, enjoying my life, and raising preschool."

- Harry Connick, Jr.

Joy

"At this point, I’m having fun just being a musician and an artist."

- Peabo Bryson

Joy

"I like to have fun and stay relaxed."

- Usain Bolt

Joy

"I just like to do fun stuff; if it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it for the rest of my life."

- Doja Cat

Joy

"Your positive energy will radiate, and if you act like you are having fun, you’ll find you are."

- Jean Chatzky

Joy

"It’s a lot easier to play football when you’re having fun."

- George Kittle

Joy

"Keep your spirit free, be flexible, and let go."

- Leslie Brown

Joy

"Never underestimate the value of having fun."

- Randy Pausch

Joy

"When you look back, the things that mean the most to you are just being with your friends and having a good time."

- Tom Fletcher

Joy

"Happiness is a part of who we are; joy is a feeling."

- Tony DeLiso

Joy

"I like to have fun, and I don’t need alcohol to do so."

- Rima Faikh

Joy

"I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times; I certainly enjoy life and sometimes find pleasure in childish things."

- Brian Baumgartner

Joy

"I’m going to have fun every day I have left because there is no other way to live; you just have to decide whether you’re a Tigger or an Eeyore."

- Randy Pausch

Joy

"You have to have fun along the way."

- Victoria Beckham

Joy

"Even in difficult times, it is possible to have fun."

- Eyden I.

Joy

"You expect to have fun and make money in any investment."

- Michael Jordan

Joy

"Just stay true to yourself; if you’re passionate about something, go for it; don’t make any sacrifices, just have fun."

- Blake Lewis

Joy

"We can make a difference while having fun."

- ATGW

Joy

"Stay healthy, do sports, and most importantly, have fun while doing sports."

- Rafael Nadal

Joy

"Life is too short not to have fun; we are only here for a short time in comparison to the sun and the moon and everything else."

- Coolio

Joy

"You can have a lot of fun when you have confidence, and when you have fun, you can do amazing things."

- Joe Namath

Joy

"Smile more, laugh more, and don’t get too worked up about things."

- Kenneth Branagh

Joy

"If you’re not having fun, try something new."

- Larry James

Joy

"Just keep taking risks and having fun."

- Garth Brooks

Taking Risks

"If you follow all the rules, you miss out on all the fun."

- Katherine Hepburn

Taking Risks

"Happiness is living a life filled with fun, friends, and freedom."

- Lorrin L. Lee

Happiness

"If you go around fearful, you’ll never enjoy life; you only get one chance, so have fun."

- Lindsey Vonn

Facing Fears

"A teacher who genuinely enjoys learning earns the right and ability to assist others in learning."

- Ruth Beechick

Learning

"You must always pass through failure on your way to success."

- Mickey Rooney

Perseverance

"Make every day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

Achievement

"No one is perfect, which is why pencil erasers exist."

- Wolfgang Riebe

Self-esteem

"Preschool is people to be unfolded, not things to be molded."

- Jess Lair

Education

"Preschool see magic because they seek it."

- Christopher Moore

Imagination

"My dream is that my four preschoolers will grow up in a nation where people will value a person’s character more than their skin tone."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Morality

"Every child you meet is a divine appointment."

- Wess Stafford

Love

"Preschools are like wet cement: anything that falls on them leaves an imprint."

- Haim Ginott

Responsibility

"Preschooler’s are the hands with which we grasp heaven."

- Henry Ward Beecher

Love

"You must love preschoolers’ sacrificially. That is difficult. It is, however, the only way."

- Barbara Bush

Love

"Hugs can be extremely beneficial, especially to preschoolers."

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Compassion

"A few minutes of a parent’s time each day is the best inheritance a parent can give to preschool."

- Orlando Aloysius Battista

Family

"Even if preschoolers are already asleep, always kiss them goodnight."

- H. Brown, Jackson Jr.

Love

"Preschool are not just passing through our door. We have been given temporary custody of them so that we can love them and instill in them the morals that will guide them throughout the rest of their lives."

- James Dobson

Responsibility

"Kids never fail to mimic their parents or other adults, even though they are never very good at listening to them."

- James Baldwin

Learning

"Any child’s potential possibilities are the most fascinating and stimulating in all creation."

- Ray L. Wilbur

Aspirations

"Making preschoolers happy is the best way to make them good."

- Oscar Wilde

Happiness

"The roots of responsibility and the wings of independence are the greatest gifts you can give to preschool."

- Denis Waitley

Responsibility

"The child should always be given the opportunity to interact with the realities of life; the thorns from his roses should never be removed."

- Ellen Key

Growth

"I’ve learned that asking your kids what they want and then advising them to go after it is the best way to give them advice."

- Harry S. Truman

Motivation

"Preschools are likely to live up to your expectations."

- Lady Bird Johnson

Belief

"Preschool must be taught how to think rather than what to think."

- Margaret Mead

Education

"Every day of our lives, we make deposits in our preschool’s memory banks."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Responsibility

"Preschool need role models, not critics."

- Joseph Joubert

Leadership

"While we try to teach preschoolers everything there is to know about life, preschoolers teach us everything there is to know about life."

- Angela Schwindt

Learning

"Play is frequently mentioned as a diversion from serious learning. For preschool, however, play is serious learning. “Childhood work is play.”"

- Fred Rogers

Education

"How freely we exchange ideas and feelings preserves or diminishes our code and standards, our heritage and ideals- the things we live by and teach preschoolers."

- Walt Disney

Education

"Be a good one, whatever you are."

- Abraham Lincoln

Integrity

"Go with all your heart wherever you go."

- Confucius

Motivation

"Each lesson in life must be learned through experience."

- Helen Keller

Learning

"I believe God put us in this happy world to be happy and enjoy life."

- Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness

"People rarely succeed unless they enjoy what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

Motivation

"You should never stop having fun even if you’re growing up."

- Nina Dobrev

Joy

"The more you concentrate on having fun, the more fun you will have."

- A.D. Posey

Joy

"Work hard, play hard, and make history."

- Jeff Bezos

Drive

"Enjoy the small things in life, because one day you will look back only to realize that they were the big things."

- Robert Breault

Gratitude

"Education is not filling a pot, but lighting a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

Education

"Teaching is the highest form of comprehension."

- Aristotle

Education

"A teacher has an effect on eternity: he never knows where his influence ends."

- Henry Adams

Influence

"I can’t teach anyone anything; all I can do is make them think."

- Socrates

Education

"Those who are aware do. Those who comprehend, teach."

- Aristotle

Education

"A good teacher is just like a candle; it consumes itself in order to light the way for others."

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Contribution

"Good Teaching is easily recognized. You can always tell because it awakens that sensation within you that tells you this is something you’ve always known."

- Frank Herbert

Education

"Your worst adversary is also your best teacher."

- Buddha

Learning from Mistakes

"All teachings are just pointers. Living your own life is the true experience."

- Ming-Dao Deng

Personal Growth

"The art of teaching is to know how to suggest."

- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Education

"Teaching is simply demonstrating that something is possible. Learning is doing it for yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

Education

"Teachers have three loves: learning, learners, and bringing the first two loves together."

- Scott Hayden

Love

"There is no such thing as failure. Only feedback."

- Robert Allen

Learning from Mistakes

"The ability to say, 'The kids are working today as if I don’t even exist,' is the best indicator of a teacher’s success."

- Maria Montessori

Education

"The greatest act of optimism is teaching."

- Colleen Wilcox

Optimism

"No one should teach unless they love it."

- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Love

"With the right combination of chalk and challenges, teachers can change lives."

- Joyce Meyer

Influence

"Teaching is an excellent way to continue learning."

- Matthea Harvey

Learning

"The teacher’s job is to start the learning process and then step back."

- John Warren

Education

"You can’t stop a teacher from doing something. They simply do it."

- J.D. Salinger

Determination

"Teaching is the indispensable profession, the one that allows all other professions to exist."

- David Haselkorn

Education

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."

- Teddy Roosevelt

Empowerment

"The job of a teacher is to take a bunch of live wires and make sure they’re well-grounded."

- Darwin Martin

Responsibility

"The message in teaching is the method, not the content."

- Ashley Montague

Education

"Your worst enemy is your best teacher."

- Gautama Buddha

Learning from Mistakes

"Educate the preschools, and men will not need to be punished."

- Pythagoras

Education

"The highest form of understanding is teaching."

- Aristotle

Education

"I owe my life to my father, but I owe my life to my teacher."

- Alexander the Great

Gratitude

"Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity."

- Kay Redfield Jamison

Well-being

"Life must be lived as if it were a game."

- Plato

Philosophy

"Offspring are a blessing from the LORD, and preschoolers are their reward."

- Psalms 127:3

Gratitude

"And He blessed them by taking them in his arms and putting his hands on them."

- Mark 10:16

Faith

"The fruit of the womb is a reward, and preschoolers are a gift from the Lord."

- Psalms 127:3

Gratitude

"Being with preschoolers heals the soul."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Healing

"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with virtue and vice possibilities but as yet unstained."

- Lyman Abbott

Inspiration

"Slow down and smile."

- Carla White

Mindfulness

"Never waste a minute thinking about anyone you dislike."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self-awareness

"I’ve learned that you can go anywhere you want to go, do anything you want to do, buy everything you want to buy, meet everyone you want to meet, and learn everything you want to learn, but if you don’t fall madly in love, you haven’t even begun to live."

- C. Joyful Bell

Love

"Like shoveling the sidewalk before the snow stops falling, housework should be done while preschools are still growing up."

- Phyllis Diller

Time Management

"Our most valuable resource is preschoolers."

- Herbert Hoover

Awareness

"Life is simple; just stay alive."

- Fakeer Ishavardas

Philosophy

"You can learn a lot from preschool. For example, how much patience you have."

- Franklin P. Jones

Learning

"Preschools are living messages we send to a time we won’t see."

- John F. Kennedy

Vision

"Preschool enrich your life."

- Erma Bombeck

Gratitude

"Sometimes, it’s better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Joy

"Start preschool on the right path, and they will not stray even when they are old."

- Proverbs 22:6

Education

"Preschooler’s are a crown to the aged, and parents are their preschool’s pride."

- Proverbs 17:6

Family

"Old men can make war, but preschools will make history."

- Ray Merritt

Hope

"When a person’s personality shines through their looks, that is when they are cute."

- Natalie Portman

Self-confidence

"To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

- Barbara Johnson

Presence

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

- Chris Grosser

Taking Risks

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

Hard Work

"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."

Leadership

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

Aspirations

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

Leadership

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

Achievement

"Failure is not fatal, and success is not final: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Perseverance

"I believe I can. I’m confident I can."

Belief in Self

"Being kind is never a waste of time."

Compassion

"Preschools are excellent imitators. So give them something fantastic to aspire to."

Inspiration

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

Self-improvement

"Dare to be yourself, no matter what others may say or do."

Self-confidence

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

Aspirations

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

- Unknown

Hard Work

"Be brave, be strong, be fearless. You are never alone."

Bravery

"Those things you learn without joy you will forget easily."

Learning

"When we are kind to others, we also become happier."

Compassion

"Parenthood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you’d have. It’s about understanding your child is exactly the person they are supposed to be. And, if you’re lucky, they might be the teacher who turns you into the person you’re supposed to be."

Personal Growth

"Do not educate your child to be rich. Educate him to be happy, so that when he grows up he knows the value of things not the price."

Happiness

"Curiosity is the spark that drives all learning."

Learning

"To raise a child who is comfortable enough to leave you means you’ve done your job. They are not ours to keep, but to teach how to soar on their own."

Personal Growth

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

Aspirations

"Broken crayons still color."

Self-esteem

"When nothing goes right, go left."

Adaptation

"Chase your dreams and never let anyone dull your sparkle."

Motivation

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

- Unknown

Efficiency

"Preschool rarely misquote. In fact, they usually repeat what you shouldn’t have said word for word."

Awareness

"Preschools are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they also help us get there quicker."

Gratitude

"Together everyone achieves more."

- Unknown

Teamwork

"Life is like a camera; focus on the positives, learn from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, try again."

Positivity

"You become happier the more you give away."

Happiness

"Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a battle you don’t understand."

Compassion

"We're better together!"

- Unknown

Teamwork

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

Teamwork

"Every achievement begins with the decision to try."

Motivation

"Always believe something wonderful is about to happen."

Optimism