50 Inspirational Quotes on Growing Up: Wisdom and Reflection for Every Stage of Life

"You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they’ll be a little older than they were today. This day is a gift. Just breathe, notice, study their faces and little feet. Pay attention. Relish the charms of the present. Enjoy today, it will be over before you know it."

- Jen Hatmaker

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned."

- Dorothy Nolte

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

- Christian D. Larson

"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging."

- Maya Angelou

"I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias."

- Maya Angelou

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

""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

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"It’s about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out."

- Jodi Picoult

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Walt Disney

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."

- Alden Nowlan

"Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults."

- Andy Andrews

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Peggy O’Mara

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"You know who’s going to build that better world? It’s the youth. Children will do things that are now considered impossible."

- Kacey McCallister

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression."

- Haim Ginott

"Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become."

- Brooke Hampton

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

- Thomas S. Monson

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

- Brandy Johnson

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

- Pamela Vaull Starr

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

- Jess Lair

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Gale Sayers

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

- Les Brown

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."

- Neil Postman

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

- Confucius

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Brian Herbert

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- James A. Froude

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

- Émile Coué

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Morihei Ueshiba

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Helmut Schmidt

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Michael F. Staley

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Anthony Brandt

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

- Max McKeown

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Zig Ziglar

"When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

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

- Newt Gingrich

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

- J.D. Salinger

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

- Anne Frank

"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."

- Patrick Rothfuss

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

- Virginia Woolf

"When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."

- John Steinbeck

"I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray"

- Cassandra Clare

"It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out."

- Jodi Picoult

"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try."

- Ethan Hawke

"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."

- Jodi Picoult

"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

"Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives."

- Mitch Albom

"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together."

- Taylor Swift

"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

"I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her an intelligent, strong, and responsible woman."

- Isaiah Mustafa

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t."

- Steve Maraboli

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Y. Davis

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- e.e. cummings

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

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

- C.S. Lewis

""Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.""

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Jess Lair

""Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.""

- Lady Bird Johnson

""It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.""

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- John Wooden

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- George Addair

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

- Sir Edmund Hillary

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

- Swati Sharma

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

- Dr. Benjamin Spock

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Marcus Garvey

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Confucius

""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

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

- Confucius

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

- Tommy Lasorda

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"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

"Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time."

- Ali Bin Abi Talib

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"All kids need a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them."

- Magic Johnson

"Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Stacia Tauscher

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

- Pablo Picasso

"Children are our greatest teachers. From them, we can learn some of life’s most valuable qualities; patience, curiosity, kindness, determination, resilience, fearlessness, trust. And most importantly they teach us what it means to love and be loved unconditionally."

- Anonymous

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

- Angela Schwindt

"Sometimes, we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

- James C. Dobson

"When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter."

- Seth Godin

"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"

- Samuel Johnson

"Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it."

- Kim Harrison

"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

"Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that."

- Ally Condie

""The expert in anything was once a beginner.""

- Helen Hayes

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

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

- John Dewey

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Steve Jobs

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

- Euripides

"A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

- Chinese Proverb

"Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling."

- Roman Payne

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

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

- Roy T. Bennett

""Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.""

- Walt Disney

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- W.E.B. Du Bois

""Children need models more than they need critics.""

- Joseph Joubert

""The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.""

- Zig Ziglar

""Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.""

- David Bly

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

- Robert Fulghum

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

- Denis Waitley

""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

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

- Og Mandino

""If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.""

- Mahatma Gandhi

""Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.""

- Dr. John Trainer

""Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.""

- Dr. Haim Ginott

""The future of the world is in my classroom today.""

- Ivan Welton Fitzwater

"You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Conrad Hall

"Children make your life important."

- Erma Bombeck

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

- William James

"The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a contribution, and hopefully going far beyond you in the scope of his life."

- Steve Biddulph

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"The final stage of wisdom is becoming a kid again."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me. I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic. The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it. It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't. I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me. Always, Your Peter P.S. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug."

- Jodi Lynn Anderson

"To be able to watch your children’s children grow up is truly a blessing from above."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."

- Betty Smith

"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going."

- P. J. O’Rourke

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

- Ashley Tisdale

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Elon Musk

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

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

- Thomas Paine

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Molière

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- John Wooden

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

- Gary Player

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"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

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"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

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

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

- Bob Goff

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Victor Hugo

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Plato

"A grownup is a child with layers on."

- Woody Harrelson

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

- C.S. Lewis

"Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples."

- J.M. Barrie

"A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to."

- Robert Brault

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

- Frank Ocean

"If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."

- Ignacio Estrada

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

- Swati Sharma

"Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

- Russell Baker

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

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

- Harry Golden

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Tommy Hilfiger

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up."

- Colleen Parro

"Adults are just outdated children."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- John Wooden

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vala Afshar

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

- African Proverb

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- Aristotle

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Harry S Truman

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Henry Ford

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Helen Keller

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jim Watkins

"Don't try to make me grow up before my time…"

- Louisa May Alcott

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Peter Drucker

""Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do … but how much love we put in that action.""

- Mother Teresa

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

- Robert Collier

"He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."

- Cormac McCarthy

""Helping a child is the best investment you can make in the future.""

- Anonymous

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

- Wayne Dyer

""There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.""

- Sue Atkins

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

- Helen Keller

"The great paradox of parenting is that it moves in both slow motion and fast speed."

- Anonymous

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Paul Solarz

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Irish saying

"The greatest legacy we can leave our kids is happy memories."

- Anonymous

"A day with your kids, no matter how big or small they are, heals your soul."

- Anonymous

"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."

- Cassandra Clare

"to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Kids are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate."

- Anonymous

"The sacrifices we make today give our kids a better tomorrow."

- Anonymous

"The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother."

- Sharon Olds

"Your kids will become who you are; so be who you want them to be."

- Anonymous

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

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

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."

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

- Unknown

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

""The most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.""

"Raising a daughter is like growing a flower. You give it your best. If you’ve done your job well, she blooms. And after that, she leaves."

""Children are our most valuable resource and our greatest responsibility. They are our future.""

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