Inspiring Quotes for Kids: A Collection to Spark Imagination

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

- Spiderman

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Dr. Seuss

"There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children."

- Nelson Mandela

"Children are the world’s most valuable resource."

- Herbert Hoover

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Confucius

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

- Sun Tzu

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Pelé

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

- Christian D. Larson

"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

"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

"The first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved."

- Don Bosco

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

- Winston Churchill

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- David Bly

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Beverly Sills

"You are the hero of your own story."

- Joseph Campbell

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- John Di Lemme

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

- Sierra Boggess

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

- Rumi

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Og Mandino

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Denis Waitley

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Angela Schwindt

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Neil Postman

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Jess Lair

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

- Mickey Mouse

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Merida

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

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Luna Lovegood

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Joy

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Dory

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

- Snow White

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Aristotle

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- African Proverb

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

- Vala Afshar

"We grow great by dreams."

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Paul Solarz

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Pele

"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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"You never fail until you stop trying."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Gale Sayers

"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

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Pamela Vaull Starr

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

- Brandy Johnson

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

- Batman

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

- Wonder Woman

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

- Superman

"United we stand, divided we fall."

- Aesop

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Steven Anderson

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Steve Jobs

"In union, there is strength."

- Aesop

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Michael F. Staley

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Helmut Schmidt

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

- Jim Rohn

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Morihei Ueshiba

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Émile Coué

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- Sound of Music

"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

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

- Brian Herbert

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Edward Everett Hale

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- B.B. King

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

- Albert Einstein

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Confucius

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- James A. Froude

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

- C. JoyBell C.

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Peter Marshall

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

- G.K. Nielson

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

- Arnold Palmer

"Perfection is boring. Constant improvement is beautiful."

- Misty Copeland

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- José N. Harris

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Chinese proverb

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

- Barney Saltzberg

"You grow through what you go through."

- Tyrese Gibson

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Dan Reeves

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

- Rikki Rogers

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Dumbo

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

- Nayyirah Waheed

"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

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Tim Fargo

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

- Daniel Kahneman

"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

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

- Coretta Scott King

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Brian Tracy

"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

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

- Iron Man

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Michael Jordan

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Sally Carrera

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

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

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

- Roald Dahl

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Grandmother Willow

"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

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

- John Wooden

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

- Maya Angelou

"You should see these places, there's a whole world outside of books."

- Aladdin

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

- Alice in Wonderland

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Max McKeown

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Thor

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

- The Flash

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jonathan Swift

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

- Thomas Paine

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Mike Wazowski

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

- John Wooden

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do."

- Jean de La Bruyère

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

- John Wooden

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

- Elon Musk

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The soul is healed by being with children."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

- Ashley Tisdale

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

- Lady Bird Johnson

"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

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

- Robert Collier

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

"Children need models more than they need critics."

- Joseph Joubert

"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day."

- Orlando Aloysius Battista

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Dr. Haim Ginott

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

- Newt Gingrich

"The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other."

- Michael Gurian

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

- Tommy Lasorda

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ivan Welton Fitzwater

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

- Marcus Garvey

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucious

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

- Benjamin Spock

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Swati Sharma

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

- Plato

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

- Sir Edmund Hillary

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Chinese Proverb

"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

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Bob Goff

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

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

- Thomas S. Monson

"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

"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 thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

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

- Michael Landon

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

- George Addair

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Johnny Depp

"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

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

- Frank Ocean

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- William Wadsworth

"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

"Wisdom begins with wonder."

- Socrates

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Gusteau

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

- Art Linkletter

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

- Gary Player

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

- John Wooden

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Ursula K. LeGuin

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

- William James

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"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

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

- Mary Poppins

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Giles Andreae

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

- Molière

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

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

- Dr. Octopus

"It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours."

- Joyce Maynard

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

- Conrad Hall

"We know what we are but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

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

- E. B. White

"Children make your life important."

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Irish Proverb

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

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul."

- Lisa T. Shepherd

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

- The Life is Good Company

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

- Walt Whitman

"The years teach much the days never know."

- Emerson

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

- Alice Munro

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

- Emily Dickensen

"Children see magic because they look for it."

- Christopher Moore

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Kermit the Frog

"The best time to believe in yourself, even more, is when it's not easy."

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

"Everything that you do or don’t do comes down to confidence."

- Anonymous

"Your uniqueness is what makes you shine."

- Anonymous

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

- Chris Grosser

"Be silly, be honest, be kind."

- Anonymous

"How people treat you is their path, how you treat people is yours."

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

"Being kind is never wasted."

- Anonymous

"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."

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

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

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

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

- Unknown

"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."

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

- Unknown

"Together everyone achieves more."

- Unknown

"Effort is between you and you. Nobody else."

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

"Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate."

"What one can be one must be."

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

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

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

"Life is a gift."

"We're better together!"

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

"My future is bright."

- Unknown