100 Inspirational Quotes for Kids

Believe in Yourself

• “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

• “Mistakes are proof that you are trying.”

• “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

• “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” – John Wooden

• “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

• “You are capable of amazing things.”

• “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

• “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss

• “Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey

• “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett

• “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

• “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

• “The more that you read, the more things you will know.” – Dr. Seuss

• “With the right mindset, you can be unstoppable.”

• “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

• “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

Embrace Learning and Growth

• “The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

• “Your attitude determines your direction.”

• “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”

• “Try and fail, but never fail to try.”

• “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

• “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb

• “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”

• “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

• “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Norman Vincent Peale

• “Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.” – Marva Collins

• “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn

• “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”

• “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein

• “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

• “You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

• “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” – Malcolm Gladwell

• “You’ve got this!”

• “A little progress each day adds up to big results.”

Spread Kindness and Positivity

• “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop

• “Kindness is free. Sprinkle that stuff everywhere.”

• “The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one.”

• “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

• “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama

• “You don’t need a cape to be a hero. You just need to care.”

• “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.”

• “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

• “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward.” – Princess Diana

• “One kind word can change someone’s entire day.”

• “Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.”

• “When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.” – Harold Kushner

• “Always be a little kinder than necessary.” – James M. Barrie

• “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

• “Leave a little sparkle wherever you go.”

• “Kindness begins with understanding we all struggle.” – Charles Glassman

• “Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person.”

• “Do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

• “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” – Dolly Parton

• “Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruits.” – John Ruskin

• “Don’t be afraid to be amazing.” – Andy Offutt Irwin

• “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

• “Be bold, be brave, be you.”

• “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

• “You are stronger than you think.”

• “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

• “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.”

• “You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.”

• “Never be afraid to try something new, because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already know.”

• “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”

• “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

• “You were born to make an impact.”

• “Take pride in how far you’ve come and have faith in how far you can go.”

• “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Be proud of who you are and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.”

• “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

• “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

• “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” – Japanese Proverb

• “Be your own kind of beautiful.”

• “The more you believe in yourself, the more others will too.”

Inspire Hope and Perseverance

• “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

• “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

• “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” – Dolly Parton

• “Don’t give up. Great things take time.”

• “A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.” – James N. Watkins

• “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”

• “Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.”

• “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

• “When life gets tough, remember: so are you.”

• “Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.”

• “You are the author of your own story.”

• “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.”

• “One step at a time is good walking.” – Chinese Proverb

• “Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.”

• “You don’t find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball

• “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

• “Big journeys begin with small steps.”

• “Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.”

• “You can do hard things.”

• “Believe in your infinite potential.”