motivational quotes for children

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ~John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor



It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. ~Mike Royko



The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ~Henry Van Dyke



To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ~Oscar Wilde



Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson



Cats come and go without ever leaving. ~Martha Curtis



The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Life's too short for chess. ~Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874



Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. ~Bertha Stuart Dyment



What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces. ~Wendie Malick



You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss



At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley



In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. ~John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975



If you want to kill time, try working it to death. ~Sam Levonson



What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. ~Norman Cousins



My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ~Joseph Howe, 1824



No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ~Channing Pollock



The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf