Here is a great list of quotes you can use for cursive writing practice, art projects, in connection with teaching social and emotional learning skills, and more.  For example, in the future I will be posting a wellness article on connecting with purpose for kids, and these quotes can be incorporated into regular self-reflection activities.

“Life must be lived as play.” ― Plato

“…if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ― Roald Dahl

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ― Dalai Lama

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” – Zig Ziglar

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ―  Maya Angelou

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” ― Dalai Lama

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”― Theodore Roosevelt

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”  — Confucius

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank

“If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.” ―  Richelle E. Goodrich

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.” ― Henry Ford

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ― Thoreau

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” ― Einstein

“Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.”  ― Oprah Winfrey

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ― Einstein

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“The grass is greener where you water it.” ―  Neil Barringham

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t… you’re right!” ― Henry Ford

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”  ―  Mark Twain

“Wherever you fall, pick something up.” ― Oswald Avery

“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” ― Rumi

“Love yourself, then figure out how to spill a little of that over on someone else.” ― Leo Christopher

“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” ― H. Jackson Brown

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” ― Aristotle

“Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison

“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

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson