inspirational quotes for kids

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller



We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber



Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. ~Red Skelton



You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. ~Grantland Rice



The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. ~Author Unknown



If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams



It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. ~Nathaniel S. Borenstein



The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat. ~Aaron Allston



One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ~Henry David Thoreau



The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ~Andre Maurois



Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ~Thomas Fuller



It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. ~Henry Ward Beecher



In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck



The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. ~Neal Barnard



A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~Henry Ford



Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit. ~Edward Tivnan



Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb



I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909



Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke