Inspirational Quotes for Kids! 200 Quotes & Sayings for Children
Inspirational Quotes For Kids
“Imagination is everything.” —Albert Einstein
“Live with purpose.” —Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” —Albert Einstein
“Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” —Albert Einstein
“You never fail until you stop trying.” —Albert Einstein
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” —Albert Einstein
“Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living.” —Albert Einstein
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.” —Albert Einstein
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” —Albert Einstein
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” —Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” —Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein
“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” —Albert Einstein
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.” —Albert Einstein
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.” —Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” —Albert Einstein
“What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.” —Albert Einstein
“Don’t listen to the person who has the answers. Listen to the person who has the questions.” —Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein
Inspirational Quotes About Children
“When life gives you rain jump in muddy puddles.” —Unknown
“Anything you teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, often in ways that are more enjoyable for children.” —Cathy James
“Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places they could not imagine.” —Yawar Baig
“It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts by nurturing their compassionate nature.” —Dalai Lama
“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.” —Paul Berg
“The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands on, exploring, in active relationship with life.” —Vince Gowman
“As children observe, reflect, record, and share nature’s patterns and rhythms, they are participating in a process that promotes scientific and ecological awareness, problem solving, and creativity.” —Deb Matthews Hensley
“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
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” —John Lubbock
“Children the world over have a right to a childhood filled with beauty, joy, adventure, and companionship. They will grow toward ecological literacy if the soil they are nurtured in is rich with experience, love, and good examples.” —Alan Dyer
“Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.” —Richard Louv
“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. —John Muir
Quotes for Kids About Life
“We grow great by dreams.” —Woodrow Wilson
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb
“What one can be one must be.” —Unknown
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” —Confucious
“Time’s fun when you’re eating flies.” —Kermit the Frog
“The years teach much the days never know.” —Emerson
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss
“May you live all the days of your life.” —Jonathan Swift
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” —Hans Christen Andersen
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss
“We know what we are but know not what we may be.” —Shakespeare
“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” —Emily Dickensen
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” —Helen Keller
“You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” —Irish Proverb
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.” —Live the life you have imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau
“To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.” —Walt Whitman
“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” —Henry David Thoreau
“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” —Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream.” —Sound of Music
“Life is not perfect. Life is not easy. Life is good.” —The Life is Good Company
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucious
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” —Alice Munro
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hearts.” —Charles Dickens
“It’s good to have an end to journey toward, but it’s the journey that matters in the end.” —Ursula K. LeGuin
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” —E.B. White
“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
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” —Theordore Roosevelt
“. . . that best portion of a good man’s life. / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.” —William Wadsworth
“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
“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
“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
“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
Motivational Quotes for Kids
“Good words are worth much, and cost little.” —George Herbert
“Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.” —Epictetus
“It’s our emotions and imperfections that make us human.” —Clyde DeSouza
“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.” —Angela Merkel
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” —E.B. White
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” —Taylor Swift
“Emotional self-control — delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness—underlies accomplishment of every sort.” —Daniel Goleman
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” —Paul Boese
“I need to listen well so that i hear what is not said.” —Thuli Madonsela
“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.” —Sir Ken Robinson
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” —C.S. Lewis
“When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life.” —Tara Meyer Robson
“Experience is not what happens to you — its how you interpret what happens to you.” —Aldous Huxley
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” —Kahlil Gibran
“It is not fair to ask of someone else what you are not willing to do yourself.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.” —Barry Neil Kaufman
“Create boundaries. Honor your limits. Say no. Take a break. Let go. Stay grounded. Nurture your body. Love your vulnerability.” —Aletheia Luna
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” —Buddha
“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” —Ralph G. Nichols
“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey
“There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—you.” —Shannon L. Alder
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kids Quotes about Love
“The giving of love is an education in itself.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
Where there is great love there are always miracles.” —Willa Cather
“The more one judges, the less one loves.” —Honore de Balzac
“I could never love where I could not respect.” —Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” —Khalil Gibran
“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved.” —Victor Hugo
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” —George Sand
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.” —Sophocles
“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Franklin P. Jones
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” —Lao Tzu
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” —Morrie Schwartz
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” —Lucille Ball
“When you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” —Leo Tolstoy
Love Quotes for Younger Kids
“How do you spell ‘love’? – Piglet “You don’t spell it you feel it.” —Pooh
“As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” —Pooh
“And she loved a little boy very much, even more than she loved herself.” —Shel Silverstein
“My love will find you wherever you are.” Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You. —Nancy Tillman
“I love you in the morning and in the afternoon. I love you in the evening and underneath the moon.” —Skidamarink
“I’ll love you forever / I’ll like you for always / As long as I’m living / My baby you’ll be.” —Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
“Whenever you feel lonely and need a little loving from home, just press your hand to your cheek and think, ‘Mommy loves you. Mommy loves you.” —The Kissing Hand by Audry Penn
“But Mama, but Mama, what if I were a super smelly skunk, and I smelled so bad my name was Stinky Face?” “Then I would give you a bath and sprinkle you with sweet-smelling powder. And if you still smelled bad, I wouldn’t mind, and I would whisper in your ear, ‘I love you, Stinky Face.’” —Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt
Quotes for Older Kids
“In my life, you are the sun that never fades and the moon that never wanes. Shine on, my child.” —Unknown
“Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved more than you know.” —Pooh
“The day you came into my life, I knew what my purpose was. To love and protect you with everything I have.” —Unknown
“If I have to choose between breathing and loving my children, I would use my last breath to tell them “I love you.” —Unknown
“I may not be perfect but when I look at my children I know that I got something in my life perfectly right.” —Unknown
“A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” —Hellen Rice
“Butterflies have wings, so they can fly. Fish have gills, so they can swim. Bunnies have four legs, so they can run. I have a heart, so I can love you.” —Unknown
“My greatest wish is that my kids always know how much I love them, and that they walk through the rest of their life knowing I’ll always be there for them anyway I can.” —Unknown
“When I tell you I love you; I don’t say it out of habit or to make a conversation. I say it to remind you that you’re the best thing that ever happened to me.” —Unknown
“If I could give my child three things, it would be the confidence to always know their self-worth, the strength to follow their dreams, and the ability to know how truly, deeply loved they are.” —Unknown
Famous Quotes About Children
“Adults are just outdated children.” —Dr. Seuss
“Children make your life important.” —Erma Bombeck, American humorist
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” —Dr. Seuss
“Children need models rather than critics.” —Joseph Joubert, French moralist
“Children see magic because they look for it.” —Christopher Moore, writer
“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” —Anonymous
“The soul is healed by being with children.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and philosopher
“Children are our most valuable resource.” —Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States
“Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.” —Diana, Princess of Wales
“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” —Jess Lair
“Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.” —Wess Stafford, President Emeritus of Compassion International
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” —Carl Sandburg, American poet
“Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.” —Ray Merritt
“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep. —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” —Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
“Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression.” —Haim Ginott, child psychologist
“Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.” —Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” —Oscar Wilde and poet
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” —Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and statesman
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” —Robert Fulghum
“Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.” —Fred Rogers, television personality
“A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often” —Author unknown
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” —Henry Ward Beecher, reverend and social activist
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.” —Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali polymath
“Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.” —Author unknown
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” —Franklin P. Jones, American humorist
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” —Charles R. Swindoll, Evangelical Christian pastor
“Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” —Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes and poet
“Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.” —Author unknown
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” —Lady Bird Johnson, Former First Lady of the United States
“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” —Stacia Tauscher, dancer and artist
“If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!” —Dwight L. Moody, evangelist
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” —Denis Waitley, motivational speaker
“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” —Ray L. Wilbur, third president of Stanford University
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” —John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
“It’s the greatest poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” —Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic nun
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin, novelist and social critic
“You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.” —Barbara Bush, Former First Lady of the United States
“While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.” —Angela Schwindt, home schooling mom States
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” —Orlando Aloysius Battista, Canadia-American chemist and author
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” —Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa
“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” —Lyman Abbott, American Congregationalist minister
“I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!” — David Vitter, Former U.S. Senator
“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, theoretical physicist
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments — tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.” —Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” —Fred Rogers, television personality
“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, evangelist
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” —Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
“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, Indian political and spiritual leader
“Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” —Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa
Quotes and Sayings about Kids
“Kids spell love T-I-M-E.” —John Crudele
“Children are a poor man’s wealth.” —Danish proverb
“Children are our most valuable resource.” —Herbert Hoover
“What is a home without children? Quiet.” —Henny Youngman
“Children make you want to start life over.” —Muhammad Ali
“Children run wildly, breathlessly… facing the wind…absorbing its speed.” —Unknown
“Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.” —Ed Asner
“Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.” —James Sullivan
“Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.” —Connie Smith
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” —Harold Hulbert
“Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.” —Chris Rock
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” —Harold S. Hulbert
“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” —William Stafford
“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.” —Zig Ziglar
“All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than others.” —Michael Carr
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“Your children teach you so much. It’s a real mirror of yourself.” —Kate Hudson
“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” —Fred Astaire
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” —Lady Bird Johnson
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” —Bob Talbert
“Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.” —Red Skelton
“Children are not things to be moulded, but are people to be unfolded.” —Jess Lair
“Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.” —W. E. B. Du Bois
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” —Franklin P. Jones
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” —John W. Whitehead
“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” —John F. Kennedy
“…in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.” —Carol Bellamy
“Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.” —Fran Lebowitz
“When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.” —Robert Brault
“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them —Earvin Magic Johnson
“Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.” —Wayne Dyer
“Let’s face it, there’s lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can’t spank Grandma.” —Janet Anderson
“Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.” —David Hartman
“You don’t always know what your kids will do, but your kids should always know what you will do.” —Joyce Sanders
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” —Angela Schwindt
“No kid is unsmart. Every kid’s a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it.” —Robin Sharma
“I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams! —David Vitter
“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says keep away from children.” —Susan Savannah
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Kids can gain courage when they’re around us. They become more secure if they know they’re important enough for us to invest time with them.” —Timothy Smith
“Children are like sponges; they absorb all your strength and leave you limp… but give them a squeeze and you get it all back.” —Ann Van Tassells
“Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you’re telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.” —Bill Cosby
“Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.” —Robert Brault
“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.” —Marcelene Cox
“Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they’re gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that’s a joy.” —Liam Neeson
“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
“When kids hit one year old, it’s like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.” —Johnny Depp
“My mom used to say it doesn’t matter how many kids you have… because one kid’ll take up 100% of your time so more kids can’t possibly take up more than 100% of your time.” —Karen Brown
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.” —William Saroyan
“Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. ‘The unknown person’ inside each of them is our hope for the future.” —Janusz Korczak