Positive Quotes For Kids

Positive quotes for kids can be a good starting point for giving a short speech.

Ask them what the quote means to them. The answers given are often very amusing and surprisingly or maybe not so surprisingly insightful.

If you have any favorite positive quotes for kids, please use the form at the end of this page and send them on in! I will put them up here with your name as the submitter.

Great quote Sarah! Truly words to live by. Thanks for sharing it!

"Never let the fear of strking out keep you from playing the game."

- A Cinderlla Story

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thanks for sending this quote in Elena! Eleanor Roosevelt is one of my favorite people to quote...I think she was a brilliant woman!

"Live life fully, you only get one chance."

The above quote was sent in by Emily. Thanks Emily! So true!

The quote below was sent in by Marisa...it's a good one, lots of wisdom in a short sentence. Thanks for sending it in, Marisa!

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch." - Aesop

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"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything."

- Marva Collins

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"It's not that you won or lost...but how you played the game."

- Grantland Rice

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

- Buddha

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

- Dennis Waitley

More positive quotes for kids

"It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it."

- W. Mitchell

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

- Dr. Robert Schuller

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"You never lose until you quit trying."

- Mike Ditka

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."

- Mary Kay Ash