Inspirational quotes for kids: Inspiring children and fun parent sayings

Inspirational quotes for kids provide parents with something to think about.

A society can be judged by what it does for its children. There is no denying that children hold the key to everyone’s future, and how you grow and inspire them goes a long way in making this world a better place. In fact, it is the desire to provide the best to children that drives the world around.

What you teach your kids today will influence not only their future but this world’s future. Make sure you raise kids who are inspired, encouraged, and have a positive mind. Here are some of the most famous inspiring quotes for kids!

Kids Inspirational Quotes

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

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucious

The more you give away, the more happy you become.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Dr. Suess

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney

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

Make each day your masterpiece.
John Wooden

No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.
Wolfgang Riebe

Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

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

Quotations for Children

How do you spell love? You don’t spell love. You feel it.
Winnie the Pooh

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

We grow great by dreams.
Woodrow Wilson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christen Andersen

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

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! Kid, you’ll move mountains.
Dr. Seuss

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

See 100 Empowering Quotes for Girls.

Uplifting Quotes for Kids

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.
Henry Ford

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky

Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.
Tommy Lee Jones

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

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai

See National Child’s Day.

Positive Sayings for Kids

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Always keep a positive mindset. It will improve your outlook on the world.
Roald Dahl

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama

It’s not what happens to you
but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus

You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind,
but you can change yourself.
That is something you have.
Jim Rohn

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

Accept everything about yourself. I mean everything,
You are you, and that is the beginning and the end,
no apologies, no regrets.
Clark Moustakas

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

Kids Motivational Quotes

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great.
Mark Twain

We must be the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Encouraging Lines

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.
Helen Keller

Don’t doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.
Aslan

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Maya Angelou

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Alva Edison

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A.A. Milne

Inspirational Quotes For Kids

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you.
Madeline Bridge

You are not meant for crawling. You have wings. Learn to use them.
Rumi

When you know better, you do better.
Maya Angelou

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Albus Dumbledore

Today is your day.
Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.
Dr. Seuss

Every object, every being, is a jar of delight. Be a connoisseur.
Rumi

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.
Benjamin Franklin

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done,
the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Good Advice

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

The most important things in life are not what you can see but what you feel.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry

It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

Never doubt yourself; it will only hold you back.
J.M. Barrie

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

If you can’t feed a hundred people,
then just feed one.
Margaret Mead

Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person. But, help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship!
Mother Teresa

Don’t be afraid of life’s challenges.
Louisa May Alcott

Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears.
Anonymous

Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman

Good Quotes for Children

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg

No kid is unsmart. Every kid’s a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.
Robin Sharma

Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

Every child is born a genius.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Best Inspirational Quotes for Kids

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of children inspires an interest in the welfare of all humanity.
James Lendall Basford

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

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.
Robert Brault

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.
There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.
Liz Armbruster

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Life, love, and laughter,
what priceless gifts to give our children.
Phyllis Dryden

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
William Stafford

Children make you want to start life over.
Muhammad Ali

Awesome Quotes for Kids

When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming.
Dory, Finding Nemo

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.
Proverb

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

Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore

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

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

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
C.S. Lewis

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
J.K. Rowling

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is an author and editor of Greeting Card Poet.