85+ Best Growth Mindset Quotes For Kids To Encourage Them

Reciting growth mindset quotes for kids could motivate children to explore their capabilities and move out of their comfort zones. It can also help them develop a positive attitude towards life and aim for the stars.

Having a growth mindset trains children to be strong and fearless and be open to new ideas and challenges. So, go on, inspire your child to reach their full potential. You may start by reading or texting them one quote each day.

85+ Growth Mindset Quotes For Kids

Share these growth mindset quotes with your child to help them grow and fulfil their dreams.

1. “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.” –Steve Maraboli

2. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill

3. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” –Walt Disney

4. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” –Albert Einstein

5. “Nothing will work unless you do.” –John Wooden

6. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” –Michael Jordan

7. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does keep going.” –Sam Levenson

8. “A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.” –Ray Davis

9. “This is something I know for a fact: You have to work hardest for the things you love most.” –Carol S. Dweck

10. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” –Christopher Robin

11. “Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.”- Virgil Garnett Thomson

12. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt

13. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” –Thomas Fuller

14. “What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

15. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” –Kelly Clarkson

16. “Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?” –Carol S. Dweck

17. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”-Albert Einstein

18. “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” –Mary Dunbar

19. “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.” –J.K. Rowling

20. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” –Confucius

21. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”-Thomas Watson

22. “If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.” –Carol S. Dweck

23. “Failure is success if we learn from it.”-Malcolm Forbes

24. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” –Vivian Greene

25. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” –Henry Ford

26. “If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.”-Marva Collins

27. “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” –Bethany Hamilton

28. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it when we use it.” –Ruth Gordon

29. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” –E.E. Cummings

30. “We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.”-Carol S. Dweck

31. “You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.” –John Wooden

32. “If we only did things that were easy, we wouldn’t actually be learning anything. We’d just be practicing things we already knew.” –David Dockterman

33. “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” -Roger Crawford

34. “We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”-Elizabeth Gilbert

35. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” –Wayne Gretzky

36. “You have not failed unless you have quit trying.” –Gordon B. Hinckley

37. “Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.” –Carol S. Dweck

38. “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Don’t quit!” –Michael Jordan

39. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

40. “I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”-Oprah Winfrey

41. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” –Thomas A. Edison

42. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” –Henry Ford

43. “Just because you haven’t found your talent yet doesn’t mean you don’t have one.” –Kermit the Frog

44. “There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet.” –Sheila Tobias

45. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” –Albert Einstein

46. “It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” –Carol S. Dweck

47. “Every problem is a gift. Without them we wouldn’t grow.” –Tony Robbins

48. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” –Michael Jordan

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

50. “We will either find a way or make one!” –Hannibal

51. “Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.” –Arthur Rubenstein

52. “Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.” –Robert Kiposaki

53. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” –Howard Thurman

54. “There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.” –Usain Bolt

55. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” –Thomas Edison

56. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” –Harry Golden

57. “It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” —Carol S. Dweck

58. “If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you; you must come to it.” –Marva Collins

59. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m Possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

60. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.” –Dale Carnegie

61. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “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 sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –Mark Twain

63. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison

64. “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” –Teddy Roosevelt

65. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” –Henry David Thoreau

66. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” –Martin Luther King

67. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu

68. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” –William Shakespeare

69. “If not now, when? If not here, where? If not me, who?” –Steve Geiger

70. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” –Helen Keller

71. “It is not length of life, but depth of life that matters.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

72. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” –John Wooden

73. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”-Napoleon Hill

74. “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” –Mahatma Gandhi

75. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” –Walt Disney

76. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” –William Ernest Henley

77. “Life is about being and becoming, not having and getting.” –Stephanie Seabrook Hedgepath

78. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” –Maria Robinson

79. “Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” –Samuel Johnson

80. “Risk more than others think is safe.  Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” –Claude T. Bissell

81. “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you discover why.” –Mark Twain

82. “The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed.” –Michelangelo

83. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –Earl Nightingale

84. “Most people never run far enough on the first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” –William James

85. “The quieter you become the more you can hear.” –Ram Dass

86. “If at first, you don’t succeed you’re normal.” –Kid President

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