170 Kids Inspirational Quotes

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Famous Kids Inspirational Quotes

Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. — Charlotte Davis Kasl

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. — Desmond Tutu

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes. — Bobby Bonilla

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything. — Wangechi Mutu

Children reinvent your world for you. — Susan Sarandon

Children need models rather than critics. — Joseph Joubert

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers. — Arthur Rackham

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. — Dr. Seuss

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. - Zig Ziglar

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. — Zig Ziglar

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. — R. D. Laing

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart. — Soleil Moon Frye

Every child is a gifted child. — Toru Kumon

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. — Walt Disney

Short Kids Inspirational Quotes

  • All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. — Magic Johnson
  • If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
  • Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. — Maya Angelou
  • Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid. — Dwayne Hickman
  • A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Children see magic because they look for it. — Christopher Moore
  • Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Pablo Picasso
  • Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood. — Cate Kennedy
  • Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. — Lady Bird Johnson
  • Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet. — Virginia Axline

Kids Inspirational Image Quotes

Kids inspirational quote I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.

Inspirational Children Quotes

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Kids inspirational quote Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves. — Ann Landers

I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.” — Afeni Shakur

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

Kids inspirational quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children. — Dante Alighieri

Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts! — Oral Roberts

Inspirational Education Quotes

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way. — Howard Gardner

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. — Jane Goodall

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things. — Lev S. Vygotsky

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain

Christian Inspirational Quotes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. — Smith Wigglesworth

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. — Dwight L. Moody

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. — Ravi Zacharias

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation. — Clare of Assisi

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest. — Corrie Ten Boom

Positive Inspirational Quotes

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama

Self Inspirational Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin. — Halle Berry

The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. - Zig Ziglar

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar

Be a voice not an echo. - Albert Einstein

Be a voice not an echo. — Albert Einstein

Inspirational Youth Quotes

If the truth is told, the youth can grow Then learn to survive until they gain control Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes Read more learn more, change the globe — Nas

You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker

Be Young, Be Dope,
Be Proud. - Lana Del Rey

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud. — Lana Del Rey

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. - Dean Smith

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. - Karl Lagerfeld

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side. — Jean Ingelow

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure. — Bob Sundvold

Inspirational Parenting Quotes

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. — Henry Cloud

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. — Osho

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. — Maya Angelou

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World! — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside. — Shel Silverstein

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be — David Bly

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here. — Mildred D. Taylor

Strong Inspirational Quotes

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Sayings

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Sara Jeannette Duncan

For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong. — Paul the Apostle

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason. — John Mayer

Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist. — Amy Carmichael

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes. — Marilyn Monroe

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou

Healthy Kids Quotes

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. — Barbara Coloroso

Believe it or not, if we want our kids to be healthy and do well in school, we have to start with the oral microbiome. — Mark Burhenne

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. — Michelle Obama

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. — Alice Waters

We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. — Michelle Obama

Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front. — Tom Vilsack

Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards. — Michelle Obama

I went from having the healthy hair that you have as a kid, to completely destroying it and frying it, and then actually having really healthy thick hair that I was proud of again. I just put an emphasis on what shampoo and conditioner I use. — Blake Lively

I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy. — Matt Skiba

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet. — Virginia Foxx

Books For Kids Quotes

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate. — Mem Fox

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. — Frederick Douglass

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Francis Bacon

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift. — Kate DiCamillo

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More Kids Inspirational Quotes

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. — Abraham Lincoln

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. — Coco Chanel

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. — Walt Disney

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one. — Glennon Melton

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. — S. D Gordon

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters. — Matt Damon

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — Henry Ford

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon. It's always there and continues to inspire humanity. — Yusaku Maezawa

If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus. — Albert Pujols

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. — George Lucas

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it. — Christina Koch

THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT. — Gwyneth Paltrow

You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play. — Herb Brooks

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. — Henry Allen Ironside

When girls are given the right tools to succeed, they can create incredible futures, not only for themselves, but also for those around them. — Meghan Markle

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. — Bill Ayers

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. — Anne Lamott

I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers. — Ralph Lauren

Manchester United has done an incredible job of building a young, talented, deep squad. — John W. Henry

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity. — Henry Ford

Whatever person kids relate to the most, I want them to call me that. Sp of Hannah's more who they find their inspiration in, call me Hannah. If they're more an average girl who wants to blend in with everybody else, then call me Miley. — Miley Cyrus

I was inspired by the men who walked on the moon. It really was my inspiration, I think, you know, as a kid of 9 years old – I know I’m dating myself, but – I thought, ‘What a cool job!’ — Peggy Whitson

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. — Alice Freeman Palmer

There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are incredibly talented, and also wonderful moms, they would be down on their knees right after a take to play with their kids. They’re beautiful women inside and out, and that’s what inspires me! — Bailee Madison

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy. — Henry Jenkins

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. — George A. Sheehan

Lots of people have written to say ‘Bake Off’ has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it’s exactly what I used to do with mine. — Mary Berry

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. — Walter Raleigh

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. — Bertran de Born

I wanna make it cool for kids to get into tech, startups, and entrepreneurship – cooler than buying a bunch of jewelry. — 21 Savage

When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary. — Connie Schultz

When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

Your soulmate is really this: the person who brings out your inner child. The person who makes you feel so truly safe that the kid inside you can come out. — Brianna Wiest

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. — Michel de Montaigne

I’m passionate about encouraging girls to be confident in their own skin. — Sadie Sink

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