Kids, in their young age, may seem to live their lives to the fullest under comfort, guidance, and security. But if we grown-ups think that these children do not worry about the next step that they are going to take, then we better think again. Kids are capable of having big dreams within their little curious minds, and they surely need motivation in order to seize the day. So here are 205 motivational quotes for kids to guide their young minds to their own adventure that awaits them.
Motivational Quotes for Kids
1. We grow great by dreams. – Woodrow Wilson
2. Climb ev’ry mountain, Ford ev’ry stream, Follow ev’ry rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream. – Sound of Music
3. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. – Hans Christen Andersen
4. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius
5. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’. – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
7. Because life is a gift, all of us are gifted. – Noah Benshea
8. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr
9. Anything is possible. Anything can be. – Shel Silverstein
10. Be silly, be honest, be kind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. – Martin Luther King Jr.
12. There is no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
13. You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney
14. We all can dance when we find music we love. – Giles Andreae
15. No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. – Wolfgang Riebe
16. All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way. – William Spady
17. We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. – Harry Edwards
18. Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts – Wilfred Peterson
19. The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage. – William Goldman
20. The moon stared at me through sprinkled nighttime stardust and I alone smile. – Jay Long
21. Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning. – Diane Ackerman
22. No kid is unsmart. Every kid’s a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. – Robin Sharma
23. When you know better you do better. – Maya Angelou
24. A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. – David Bailey
25. Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you. – Madeline Bridge
26. I can accept failure — everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
27. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
28. It always seems impossible until it is done. – Nelson Mandela
29. You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. – Irish Proverb
30. Nobody but me is gonna change my story. – Matilda
31. There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis
32. I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it. – Art Williams
33. You are allowed to scream. You are allowed to cry. You are allowed to scream. But, you are not allowed to give up. – Unknown
34. Make yourself proud. – Peter W. Smith
35. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franknlin
36. Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself. – Harry Potter
37. You are not meant for crawling. You have wings. Learn to use them. – Rumi
38. We are what we repeatedly do. – Aristotle
39. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
40. All things are difficult before they are easy. – Thomas Fuller
41. What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes
43. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
44. I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. – Oprah Winfrey
45. Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one. – Kermit the Frog
46. There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet. – Sheila Tobias
47. Learn as much as you can while you are young since life becomes too busy later. – Dana Stewart Scott
48. The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. – Brian Herbert
49. Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference. – Claire Fagin
50. Education is soul crafting. – Cornel West
51. Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. – Francis Bacon
52. Don’t stress. Do your best. Forget the rest. – Anonymous
53. Nothing is impossible the word itself says “I’m possible”. – Audrey Hepburn
54. You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. – E.O. Wilson
55. You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. – Meryl Streep
56. It’s up to you how far you’ll go. If you don’t try, you’ll never know. – Merlin, The Sword and The Stone (1963)
57. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
58. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France
59. You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. – Gusteau, Ratatouille (2007)
60. Never look back, darling. It distracts from the now. – Edna Mode, The Incredibles (2004)
61. You are who you choose to be. – Hogarth Hughes, The Iron Giant (1999)
62. I can do everything through him who gives me strength. – Philippians 4:13
63. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe the best does. – L.M. Montgomery
64. To infinity and beyond! – Buzz Lightyear
65. I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott
66. Action is the fundamental key to success. – Pablo Picasso
67. Preparation is the key to success. – Alexander Graham Bell
68. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
69. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming. – Dory, Finding Nemo
70. I guess destiny is not the path given to us, but the path we choose for ourselves. – Megamind
71. Your story may not have such a happy beginning. But that doesn’t make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be. – Soothsayer, Kung Fu Panda 2
72. I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. – Takeshi Shudo, The Art of Pokemon
73. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
74. There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. – Franz Kafka
75. It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
76. Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. – Ovid
77. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. – Wallace Wattles
78. Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
79. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. – J. M. Barrie
80. It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. – Epictetus
81. Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
82. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller
83. Mistakes are always forgivable if one had the courage to admit them. – Bruce Lee
84. If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it. – Muhammed Ali
85. If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. – Doc Brown (Back to the Future)
86. Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point you will. – Venus Williams
87. The beginning is always today. – Mary Wollstonecroft
88. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Saying
89. If you don’t try, you’ll never do. – Dr. Todd
90. No-one knows what he can do until he tries. – Publilius Syrus
91. Follow your dreams… Remember to wear cute shoes! – Zakiyya Rosebelle
92. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. – George Washington Carver
93. The 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. – Pablo Casals
94. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible. – Douglas Bader
95. Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there! – Will Rogers
96. Do all you can to make your dreams come true. – Joel Osteen
97. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
98. You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar
99. Everything you need is already inside. Just do it. – Bill Bowerman
100. Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there’s a light somewhere nearby. – Ruth E. Renkei
101. Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart. – John Hiatt
102. Learning never exhausts the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci
103. Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticise, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. – Ernest Hemingway
104. Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – Francis of Assisi
105. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
106. I think it is possible for an ordinary person to choose to be extraordinary. – Elon Musk
107. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. – William Feather
108. He who laughs most, learns best. – John Cleese
109. The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B.B. King
110. You will never win if you never begin. – Helen Rowland
111. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
112. Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. – Victor Kiam
113. Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. – Bill Ackman
114. The only real failure in life is one not learned from. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
115. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. – Flavia
116. I say I am stronger than fear. – Malala Yousafzai
117. It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
118. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson
119. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. – Roy T. Bennett
120. If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. – Dr Roopleen
121. Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. – Suzy Kassem
122. Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table. – Shannon L. Alder
123. Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. – Stuart Aken
124. If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don’t want. – Kevin Ngo
125. Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. – Bo Bennett
126. When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible! – John Paul Warren
127. Pain doesn’t last. And when it’s gone, we have something to show for it. Growth. – Kamal Ravikant
128. Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet. – D. Antoinette Foy
129. Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game! – Babe Ruth
130. When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first. – Kyo Shirodaira
131. Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. – Edward R. Murrow
132. Competition is a rude yet effective motivation. – Toba Beta
133. I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me. – Jaachynma N. E. Agu
134. Act as if it was, and it will be. – Lailah Gifty Akita
135. Just imagine, life to be a dance with different kind of rhythms depending on what music is playing in the background. Sometimes we may dance alone and that’s OK, as some songs are simply meant to be danced like that. Practice! Don’t stop! It’s your dance! – Nico J. Genes
136. Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. – Victoria Addino
137. It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going. – Rodolfo Costa
138. Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. – Charlotte Eriksson
139. I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to. – Toni Sorenson
140. The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life! – Darrell Yarbrough
141. Start even if you don’t know how. – Wendy Tremayne
142. We tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn. – Don Campbell
143. Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that… – Gino Norris
144. The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose. – Ryan Lilly
145. It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. – Jillian Michaels
146. Motivation gets you going; Inspiration keeps you going. – Todd Stocker
147. Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven’t yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. – Samuel Beckett
148. The water doesn’t know how old you are. – Dara Torres
149. …the worst thing said about him is that he was “uncurious.” – Yvon Chouinard
150. Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well. – Danielle Pierre
151. Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don’t even dream of coming down. – Michael Bassey Johnson
152. The motivation of all artists is ‘Look at me, Mum’. – Sebastian Horsley
153. It doesn’t matter where you’ve been, only where you are going. – L.M. Fields
154. Don’t let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you. – Bernard Kelvin Clive
155. You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think! – A.A. Milne
156. You don’t get time. You create time. – Sanhita Baruah
157. Not all things that fall down break. Some develop wings. – Neelam Saxena Chandra
158. Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you’ve practiced two hundred times. – Miriam Peskowitz
159. WINNER:is A Runner who “Wins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent Runners!” – Sujit Lalwani
160. If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito! – Wolfgang Reiber
161. He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way. – Amunhotep El Bey
162. Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing. – Elizabeth F. Barkley
163. At the end of the day, let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today. – Noel DeJesus
164. Believe in yourself and don’t be afraid to reach for the stars. – Aurora Berill
165. Everyone has a shot at greatness. – Zack Friedman
166. You will never be perfect, but you will always be enough. – Trevor Carss
167. Everyday we are reminded by forces that you don’t have to give up! – Puneet Dhingra
168. Your dreams are wonderful thoughts of you in your mind that’s waiting for you to turn them into your reality. – Angel Moreira
169. Don’t go backward seeing obstacles. Overcome it. Your destination is ahead. – Deb Chakraborty
170. Do you want to stop growing? Keep saying I can’t! – Shaun S. Lott
171. If you know what you’re looking for, you’ll find it. – Monika Kristofferson
172. I wanted to put my best foot forward just like my hero. – Jack Cheng
173. Motivation can come from many means; none of them compares to the self-motivation acquired while reading good books at a young age. – Alan Maiccon
174. Let the failure of today be motivation to do Better Tomorrow. – Jeanette Coron
175. Give your best in everything you do because what you plant now is what you’ll harvest later. – Kelvin Wong
176. No matter how hard it is, try to be strong than yesterday. – ShaaZainol
177. Find out what you’re good at…and then get even better. That’s the key. – A.J. Pearce
178. Lions don’t worry about what lambs think. – Francis Shenstone
179. When you are happy you can do anything. – Jill Liberman
180. Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth. – Nikola Tesla
181. We need motivation…for those dark clouds days and… foxes and wolfs lurking around…. – Deyth Banger
182. Rome was not built in one day; But one day Rome was built. – Kayambila Mpulamasaka
183. When taken in the right direction, even a step that is only half a centimeter long is progress. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
184. No one can reverse best of you! – Vinay Prajapati
185. If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can. – Tony Robbins
186. Aim for the SKY then you will land in the MOON if anything goes wrong. – Immanuel Mohan
187. Before you become GREAT, you have to be GRATEFUL…because you are GREAT right now! – Masha Arielle
188. The man grows with its challenge – Max Roeck
189. What amazing possibilities are you ready to take action on now? – Teri Karjala
190. I’m Looking forward to summer. If you miss it don’t look back but try to bring sunny days into your life instead. – Ana Claudia Antunes
191. Color breathes life into my soul. – Emily Hopper
192. Don’t be afraid of exploring your capabilities, of seeking adventures, of searching for answers, of pushing the envelope, of finding gaps between the fences. Don’t, be, afraid… Period. Life is too short to be a wimp. – Kakali Bandyopadhyay
193. To me, it’s simple: if you’ve got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that’s more important? Yes, maybe you’ll learn how to do a few things you’ll never wind up actually needing to do, but that’s a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start. – Chris Hadfield
194. Put your efforts towards the things in life that enhance your highest self – Donna Goddard
195. Will it be your Heart that wins, or your Fear? – Mel Robbins
196. When imagination comes in action, creative things are likely to happen – Er. Tabish Rasool
197. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren
198. Experience is not the best teacher. The consequence from experience is the best teacher. No consequence no lesson. – Ford Taylor
199. Decide what you want in life, and tell the world it’s yours – Topher
200. Make things happen, Don’t let things happen to you. – Syed Sharukh
201. It starts with Dreams—Dreams create Desires, Desires create Determination, which leads us to our Destiny. – RVM
202. Life has knocked me down plenty of times. But there’s always a little bit of me that tells me to get back up, to rise, and shine. It reminds me that I don’t belong in the dust. I belong in the stars and that’s where I should be headed. And that little bit of me… that’s the one I love the most! – Mona Soorma
203. Don’t think for one second you can’t be anything you want to be— a warrior, a goddess, a queen-bee. – Melody Lee
204. I won’t say it, I’ll show it. – Srinu Maripi
205. Lion Is fearless. Lion is not a survivor But a warrior. Lion Hunt Alone, Not in group. Lion Don’t eat leftover, but hunt big. A Lion does not turn around when a small dog Barks. Lion Is the king of the jungle. – Andrew Rozario