365 Positive Thought of the Day Quotes for Kids

Kids can learn from some of the smartest people in the world every day of the year with this list of positive thought of the day quotes for children.  These words of wisdom can motivate kids, encourage action, make kids think and boost their performance.  We have chosen our favorite inspirational quotes for kids for this list that can be used as a children’s quote of the day for good thoughts year round!  Print our free English thought of the Day calendar to make using this list easier at home or in the classroom.

Favorite Thought of the Day Ideas for Kids

These are our favorite positive thought of the day that will help children start their day with a smile.

1. “It’s okay not to know. It’s not okay to not try.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
2. “Life is tough, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry
3. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” – Brad Paisley
5. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus
6. “Know yourself, love yourself, trust yourself, be yourself.” – Ariel Paz
7. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
8. “Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind; the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.” – Henry James
9. “Keep looking up. That’s the secret of life.” – Charlie Brown
10. “There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of every day.” – Walt Disney
11. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
13. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Virginia Woolf
14. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
15. “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
16. “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
17. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”– J.K. Rowling
18. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
19. “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
20. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr Seuss
21. “If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.” – Marie Osmond
22. “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver
23. “You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have.” – Jim Rohn
24. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” – Les Brown
25. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” – Stephen Richards
26. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
27. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
28. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
29. “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.” – David Bailey
30. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”– Dr. Seuss
31. “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”– Stephen Hawking
32. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present.’”– Eleanor Roosevelt
33. “Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey

Favorite Small Thought of the Day Short Quotes

If you don’t have a lot of time, you can start the day with short, warming quotes instead.

34. Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
35. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
36. Be soft and cool like water. So you can adjust anywhere in Life! Be hard and attractive like a diamond. So no one can play with your emotions.
37. Difficulties in your life don’t come to destroy you, but to help you to realize your hidden potential.
38. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
39. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
40. “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
41. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez
42. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
43. “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
44. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale
45. “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” —Walter Anderson
46. “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.”—Diane McLaren
47. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
48. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
49. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
50. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West
51. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn
52. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
53. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins
54. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
55. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
56. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
57. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
58. Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” — W. Clement Stone
59. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle
60. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
61. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
62. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
63. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
64. “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
65. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
66. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

Education: Thought for the Day Quotes About Learning

These quotes will help kids stay motivated for school and want to learn more everyday!

67. “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” – Aristotle
68. “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams
69. “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
70. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
71. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein
72. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
73. “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” – E.M. Forster
74. “One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.” — Frank Herbert
75. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee
76. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
77. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
78. “Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” — Chinese Proverb
79. “Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” — Vernon Howard
80. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo
81. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” – Roy T. Bennett
82. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynmann
83. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford
84. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin
85. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
86. “One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you’ll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.” — Earl Nightingale
87. “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” — Marvin Minsky
88. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” – Isaac Asimov
89. “Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.” — Michael J. Gelb
90. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” — Doris Lessing
91. “I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.” – Joe Abercrombie
92. “If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.” — Howard Gardner
93. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” — Leonardo da Vinci
94. “Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.” — Tom Colicchio
95. “Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data.” — Terry Heick
96. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson
97. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler
98. “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” — Confucius
99. “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought of the Day for Students

Here are some quotes for students of all ages, from kindergarten to primary school and older kids!

100. “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain
101. “Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.” – Henry Ford
102. “When you talk, you are only repeating something you know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. – Dalai Lama”
103. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
104. “Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” — Chinese Proverb
105. “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” — BB King
106. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein.
107. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
108. Push yourself because, No one else is going to do it for you.
109. ” It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good Student.” – author
110. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch
111. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
112. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani
113. “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” – Seuss
114. “If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.” – Michael Phelps
115. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden
116. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
117. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” – Dalai Lama
118. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” – Lloyd Alexander
119. “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” – Brian Herbert
120. “Talent without working hard is nothing.” – Cristiano Ronaldo
121. “Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” – Vladimir Lenin
122. “Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.” – Jenn Proske
123. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
124. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
125. “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.” – David Bailey
126. “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
127. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
128. “Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” — Henry L. Doherty
129. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones..” – Confucius
130. “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” — Mason Cooley
131. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
132. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potentials. ” -John Maxwell

Thought of the Day for a Good School Day

If you want to wish your little one a great day at school, here’s the best way to do it in a matter of minutes. Put a little note with one of these quotes on their lunchbox!

133. “You’re off to great places. Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
134. “All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.” – Ken Robinson
135. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – JOHN DEWEY
136. “Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.” – Bill Dodds
137. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift
138. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
139. “Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”—Nora Ephron
140. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.”—Derek Jeter
141. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”—Plato
142. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
143. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”—Sun Tzu
144. “The key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go.”—Oprah
145. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.” – Regina Brett
146. “High school is about finding who you are, because that’s more important than trying to be someone else.” – Nick Jonas
147. “By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.” – Clifton Fadiman
148. “No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.” – Saul Bellow
149. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” – Dana Stewart Scott
150. “The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey
151. “Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
152. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
153. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
154. “If you think your teacher is tough, wait ‘til you get a boss.” — Bill Gates
155. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris
156. “The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.” – Marvin Phillips
157. “There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island.” –Walt Disney
158. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”—Anthony Robbins
159. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”—Dr. Seuss
160. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
161. “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
162. “Let’s do what we love, and let’s do a lot of it.” – Marc Jacobs

Leadership: Motivational Thought for the Day Quotes

Try these quotes to inspire people to become leaders and an example to their peers.

163. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” -John Quincy Adams
164. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
165. “The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I”. They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” – Peter Drucker
166. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” – Margaret Fuller
167. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
168. “Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.” – Vince Lombardi
169. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
170. “I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.” – John Hume
171. “Leadership is action, not position.” – Donald H. McGannon
172. “A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. ” – Unknown
173. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
174. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer
175. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle
176. “To lead people, walk behind them.” – Lao Tzu
177. “Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says Go a leader says Let s go.” – E M Kelly
178. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
179. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
180. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” -John C. Maxwell
181. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” -Alexander the Great
182. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” –Warren G. Bennis
183. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
184. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” —Max DePree
185. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margarett Fuller
186. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”—Lao Tzu
187. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” —Peter Drucker
188. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” —Aristotle
189. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” —Brian Tracy
190. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” Christian D. Larson
191. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.” J. P. Morgan
192. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” Arnold Glasow
193. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” -Henry Ford

Kindness: Inspirational Thought of the Day Quotes

Everyone should be a bit kinder. We believe these quotes will inspire kids and adults alike to be nicer to other people no matter the day.

194. “Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.” – Jackie Chan
195. “Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.” – Harold S. Kushner
196. “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana
197. “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” – Roy T. Bennett
198. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” —Aesop
199. “Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.” —Anthony J. D’Angelo
200. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” —Lao Tzu
201. “Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara De Angelis
202. “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” —Princess Diana
203. “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” —Dalai Lama
204. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
205. “Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” – Eric Hoffer
206. “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
207. “Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” —Scott Adams
208. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” —William Wordsworth
209. “Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.” – Bob Kerrey
210. “I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.” —Lady Gaga
211. “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” —George Sand
212. “Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.” —Tommy Lee Jones
213. “Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.” —Mr. Rogers

Positive Thinking: Happy thought of the Day Quotes

Positive thinking is so important! Stay in a positive state of mind with these beautiful quotes.

214. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
215. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin
216. “If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead.” – Gusteau
217. “Make each day your masterpiece.” -John Wooden
218. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
219. “One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” – Lucille Ball
220. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down” – Charlie Chaplin
221. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
222. “Remember you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.” — Snow White
223. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” -Charles Dickens
224. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
225. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
226. “When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming.” – Dory
227. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
228. “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
229. “It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.” – Dr Suess
230. “Don’t fear failure. Be afraid of not having the chance, you have the chance!” – Sally Carrera, Cars 3
231. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
232. “You can’t focus on what’s going wrong. There’s always a way to turn things around.” – Joy, Inside Out
233. “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
234. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama XIV
235. “Things have a way of working themselves out if we just remain positive.” – Lou Holtz
236. “I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.” – Mike Ditka
237. “I believe one of my strengths is my ability to keep negative thoughts out. I am an optimist.” – John Wooden
238. “Be positive. Your mind is more powerful than you think. What is down in the well comes up in the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things.” – Tony Dungy
239. “This is one of the most important themes I want you to take from me: Stay as positive and upbeat as you can possibly be. I’ll say it many times: if you can dream it, you can be it.” – John Calipari
240. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
241. “Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.” -Vanessa Diffenbaugh
242. “Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.”– Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter
243. “Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. ” – Bonnie Blair
244. “Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

New Day Quotes: Thought for the Day Ideas

Every new day is a new chance to be who we want to be. That’s why these quotes will be an awesome reminder of your kids’ potential!

245. “Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.” – Douglas Pagels
246. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J. B. Priestley
247. “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” – Abbie Hoffman
248. “All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.” – Shannon L. Alder
249. “It doesn’t matter what your present circumstances look like, today is a brand-new day, and God wants to do a new thing in your life and in your relationship with Him every day.” – Joel Osteen
250. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent
251. “Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.” – Ben Zobrist
252. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
253. “This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.” – Steve Maraboli
254. “A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.” – Steve Maraboli
255. “I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.” – Juansen Dizon
256. “On the other side of this darkness, a new day will slowly dawn.” – Corban Addison
257. “He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.” – Daniel Wallace
258. “To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.” – Debbie Ford
259. “There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.” – Noel DeJesus
260. “Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.” – Aniruddha Sastikar
261. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood
262. “Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.” – Debasish Mridha
263. “Celebrate the new day with shouts of praise, love and grace and with a beautiful smile upon your face.” – Caroline Naoroji
264. Rise up start fresh see the bright opportunity in each new day.
265. “Each day is always breaking out anew Aspirations swirling round what you do” – Richard L. Ratliff
266. “Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.” – Doe Zantamata
267. “Embrace every new day with gratitude, hope and love.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
268. “When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.” – Steve Maraboli
269. “In your darkest hour, give thanks, for in due time, the morning will come. And it will come with a ray of sunshine.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
270. “Another day, another chance.”- A.D. Aliwat
271. “Every new day is a sacred gift with new sacred grace.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
272. Shake of all those negative thoughts of yesterday. Rise and shine it’s a new day.
273. “Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.” – Og Mandino
274. “Imagine if we treated each new dawn of each new day with the same reverence and joy as we do each new year.” – Angie Lynn

Success: Good Thought of the Day Quotes

Success starts at home! Use these quotes to remind you of how far you can go with a positive mindset and effort!

275. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy
276. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” -Benjamin Franklin
277. “Preparation is the key to success.” – Alexander Graham Bell
278. “The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
279. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
280. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth
281. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” -Bill Bradley
282. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
283. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” -Pele
284. “Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” — Bonnie Blair
285. Never give up something that you really want. It is difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.
286. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” -Bobby Unser
287. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
288. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
289. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
290. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” -Henry Ford
291. Do one thing every day that scares you.
292. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Virat Kohli
293. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell
294. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
295. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
296. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” -Stephen Hawking
297. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”- Steve Jobs
298. “Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” – Shiv Khera
299. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama

Imagination: Creative Thought of the Day Quotes

Need help to stay creative? Ignite creativity and imagination with these fun quotes!

300. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw
301. “The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.” – Nelson Mandela
302. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
303. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney
304. “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll
305. “If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.” – Alice Walker
306. “Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.” – Ann Patchett
307. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath
308. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward
309. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
310. “Your imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
311. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” – Robert Fulghum
312. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw
313. “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” – J.G. Ballard
314. “The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” – Tony Robbins
315. “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” – Anatole France
316. “Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” – J.K. Rowling

Motivation: Thought of the Day Quotes

Need help keeping your kid motivated? These quotes should help!

317. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘the present.’” — Eleanor Roosevelt
318. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
319. “Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.” —Atul Gawande
320. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain
321. “Nothing that’s worth anything is easy.” —Barack Obama
322. “Trying to do it all and expecting it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.” —Sheryl Sandberg
323. “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” —Tom Hanks
324. “If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” — Muhammad Ali
325. “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.” —Jim Henson
326. “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” —Ruth Bader Ginsberg
327. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” —Mae Jemison
328. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
329. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller
330. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama
331. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” —Lance Armstrong
332. “You never fail until you stop trying.” —Albert Einstein
333. .”Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.” — Hans Christian Andersen
334. “Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” — Horace
335. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius
336. “Dig deep to finish what you start. Because no matter how hard it feels to push through adversity at the time, once you’re done, you’ll own the experience for the rest of your life.” – Aaron Lauritsen
337. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.” — Henry Ford
338. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
339. “If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?” — Boonaa Mohammed
340. “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
341. “We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.” — Jimmy Carter

Character: Moral Values Thought of the Day Quotes

Moral is as important as any other values! Remember the importance of having a good character and being a good person here.

342. “We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.” – Mother Teresa
343. “You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.” – Henry David Thoreau
344. “The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.” – Albert Einstein
345. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
346. “Not all who wander are lost.” – Gandolf
347. “Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.” – Dave Willis
348. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.” – JCWells
349. “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” – Winnie The Pooh
350. “I want to say when I was little, like Maleficent, I was told I was different. And I felt out of place and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something – something I hope you all realize. Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.” – Angelina Jolie
351. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
352. “Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.” – Luna Lovegood
353. “Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.”- Anita Roddick
354. “Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
355. “Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.” – Alexis Carrel
356. “Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.” – Les Brown
357. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln
358. “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” – Winston Churchill
359. “I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.” – Tila Tequila
360. “He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.” – Lao Tzu
361. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m a character being written, or if I’m writing myself.” – Marilyn Manson
362. “Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.” – Jim Rohn
363. “We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.” – Albert Camus
364. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
365. “In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.” – Henry Van Dyke
366. “Character is simply habit long continued.” – Plutarch
367. “When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don’t take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.” – Michael Josephson

Courage: Overcoming Fear Thought of the Day Quotes

Everyone is courageous deep inside! If you need a little push to overcome fears, here’s just what you need!

368. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
369. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – Nelson Mandela
370. “Courage: the most important of all virtues because without it, you cannot practice any other virtues.” – Maya Angelou
371. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
372. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
373. “Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
374. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonapart
375. “You must always remember this: Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body. And it has power. More than you know.” —Brittany Candau
376. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” —Maya Angelou
377. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
378. “The secret to happiness is freedom … and the secret to freedom is courage.” —Thucydides
379. “Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” – Shannon L. Alder
380. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” —William Faulkner
381. “Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.” – Justin Cronin
382. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anaïs Nin
383. “Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee – and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.” – Jim Butcher
384. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” —Winston Churchill
385. “Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” – Bryce Courtenay
386. “Courage results when one’s convictions are bigger than one’s fears.” —Orrin Woodward
387. “Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. He is also a fool.” – Robert A. Heinlein
388. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” —Mark Twain

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