100+ Kids Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Empower Young Minds

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Maria Montessori

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

- Maria Montessori

"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

"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

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

- Maria Montessori

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"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

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"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

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

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"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

"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

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

- Bev Bos

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

- Vince Gowmon

"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

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

- Birgitte Coste

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

- Aleta Margolis

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

- Sandra Parks

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"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

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

- Sigmund Freud

"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

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

- John Holt

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

- Pennie Brownlee

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

- @SteeleThoughts

"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

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

- John Piaget

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

- Plato

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

- Vince Gowmon

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

- Angela Schwindt

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- William Stafford

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

- Vince Gowmon

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

- Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

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

- Allen Klein

"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

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

- H. L. Mencken

"Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity."

- Kay Redfield Jamison

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Knights of Pythagoras

"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

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings."

- Carl Jung

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

- Loris Malaguzzi

"Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn."

- Loris Malaguzzi

"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

"You are the hero of your own story."

- Joseph Campbell

"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

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

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"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

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

- Frank A. Clark

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

- Alfie Kohn

"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

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

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"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

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

- Yoda

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Jess Lair

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Stacia Tauscher

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

- Jim Henson

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

- Yawar Baig

"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

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

- F. Douglas

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

- Alfie Kohn

"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

"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

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

- Vince Gowmon

"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

"We see how early childhood experiences are so important to lifelong outcomes, how the early environment literally becomes embedded in the brain and changes its architecture."

- Andrew S. Garner

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Ever Garrison

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

- Jacob Liberman

"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

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

- Rudolf Steiner

"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

"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

"Movement is the door to learning."

- Paul E. Dennison

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

- Joseph Cornell

"So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we will lose control. Let go of that unfounded fear and give your child permission to be human. We all have days like that. None of us are perfect, and we must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves. All of the punishments you could throw at them will not stamp out their humanity, for to err is human, and we all do it sometimes."

- Rebecca Eanes

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"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

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

- Peggy O’Mara

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

- Erika & Nicholas Christakis

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

- Dr.Lillian Katz

"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

"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

"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

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

- Paul Berg

"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

"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

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- J.W. Gardner

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

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

- Vince Gowmon

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

- Kofi Annan

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Sierra Boggess

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

- Rumi

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- John Di Lemme

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Henry Ford

"In union, there is strength."

- Aesop

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Steven Anderson

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"United we stand, divided we fall."

- Aesop

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

- Venus Williams

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

- Annette White

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

- Harriet Tubman

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"The future rewards those who press on."

- Barack Obama

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Bonnie Blair

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- John Green

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

- Nancy Tillman

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

- Dalai Lama XIV

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

- Buddha

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Maddy Malhotra

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Kurt Cobain

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Aesop

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

- Buddha

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Morgan Freeman

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

- William Arthur Ward

"When you know better, you do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- John A. Shedd

"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

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

- Luna Lovegood

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

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Winston Churchill

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Robert Collier

"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

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

- Jim Watkins

"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

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Learning is not a spectator sport."

- D. Blocher

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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."

- 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

"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

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

- Tommy Lasorda

"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

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

- Peter Drucker

"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

"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

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

- B.B. King

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Sun Tzu

"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

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

"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

"Structure is akin to a fence surrounding a playground. While it is needed, if it is too close, it will stifle exploration and learning."

- Vince Gowmon

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When one teaches, two learn."

- Robert Heinlein

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

- Robert Fulghum

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Disney

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Zig Ziglar

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

"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

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- John Wooden

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Helen Keller

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Harry S Truman

"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

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

"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

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

- Sam Levenson

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Harry Golden

"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 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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Pamela Vaull Starr

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

- Brandy Johnson

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Thomas S. Monson

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Max McKeown

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

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

- Bob Goff

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

- Winston Churchill

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

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

- Anthony Brandt

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Victor Hugo

"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 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

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Ashley Tisdale

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- William James

"I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

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

- Conrad Hall

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

- Ken Blanchard

"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Peter Marshall

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."

- R Collier

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

- Charles Brower

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."

- Tom Robbins

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

- Confucius

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

- Frank Ocean

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Chinese proverb

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

- Gary Player

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

- Charlie Gilkey

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Children make your life important."

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Nike

"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

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

- K.L. Nielsen

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

"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

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

- Mildred B. Vermont

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Erin Kenny

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

- David Vitter

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

- Ray Merritt

"Deep meaning lies often in childish play."

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

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

- Ray L. Wilbur

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

- Ken Blanchard

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Boldness be my friend."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Tony Stark

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Decouvertes

"No pressure, no diamonds."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Each day provides its own gifts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Wisdom begins with wonder."

- Socrates

"Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder."

- Mason Cooley

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Beverly Sills

"You have to be odd to be No.1."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Carl Sagan

"He who laughs most, learns best."

- John Cleese

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

- Wayne Dyer

"One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race."

- Mary Shelley

"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

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

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

- Chris Grosser

"Be silly, be honest, be kind."

- Anonymous

"The teacher and the taught create the teaching."

"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."

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

"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."

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."

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

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"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."

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

"Please excuse the mess, children are making memories."

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

- Unknown

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"Together everyone achieves more."

- Unknown

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

"When nothing goes right, go left."

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

- Unknown

"We're better together!"

- Unknown

"Broken crayons still color."

"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."

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

"My future is bright."

- Unknown

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

"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

"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."

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

- Unknown