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61 Growth Mindset Quotes for Kids (and Adults Too!)

Help your kids set themselves up for success by fostering an attitude of persistence, positivity, and perspective.

61 Growth Mindset Quotes for Kids (and Adults Too!)

Carol Dweck’s book Mindset is a must-read for parents. Filled with nuggets of wisdom and profound ideas, it will change how you approach life and parenting. But life is busy, so here is a rundown of what a growth mindset is and why it is vital for your children.

Having a growth mindset means you believe your abilities can be learned and improved. A growth mindset embraces challenges and accepts criticism as a learning tool. It understands that new skills take effort and perseverance and that failure is a part of learning. 

“In a growth mindset, your flaws are just a to-do list of things to improve” – Derek Sivers.

When your child has a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset, they can overcome setbacks and take inspiration from other people’s success. 

This way of thinking drives motivation and will help children achieve their goals. If you change the way you think, you change how you learn, which is a powerful idea for kids to understand.

Here are 61 growth mindset quotes for kids to boost positivity and nudge them in the right direction:

Mindset Quotes about Mistakes

Making mistakes is part of learning and growing. It is what being human is all about, and something kids need to see as a learning experience.

Why not chat about mistakes you have made and how you learned from them? It’s important to normalize making mistakes and help reduce the fear and shame they can bring.

Mindset Quotes about Mistakes

1. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

2. “If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.” – Marva Collins

3. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.” – Elbert Hubbard

Mindset Quotes for Kids about Failure

Everyone fails, and it is hard! But failing is a part of learning and is completely normal.

The word ‘yet’ is essential for a growth mindset. It turns failure from a negative experience into a positive learning one. A growth mindset helps kids learn to fail well. Failure is inevitable but using it to move forward is where the magic happens.

Mindset Quotes for Kids about Failure

4. “Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Sherman Finesilver

5. “You failed. But you lived. The sooner you own up to it, the faster you evolve.” – Mimi Ikonn

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

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

8. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes

9. “There is no failure. Only Feedback.” – Robert Allen

10. “Failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying.” – Sara Blakely

11. “I never lose. I either win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela

12. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed” – Theodore Roosevelt

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

14. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paul Coelho 

Perseverance Quotes for Kids

Learning is a process of vulnerability and challenges, precisely why perseverance is so important. Life is uncomfortable and is constantly pushing us out of our comfort zones. The ability to go through those feelings and keep working towards their goal is one that kids need for success.

Perseverance Quotes for Kids

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

16. “If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark

17. “Everything is hard before it’s easy.” – Goethe J. W

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

19. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

20. “It never gets easier. You just get better.” – Jordan Hoechlin

21. “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford

22. “If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along, and you’ll start happening too.” – Dr. Seuss

23. “You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.” – Muhammad Ali

24. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell and got back up again.” – Nelson Mandela

25. “I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it.” – Vincent van Gogh

26. “The expert at anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

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

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

Positive Mindset Quotes

Our minds are powerful and critical to our success. Encouraging kids to have a positive mindset means they see challenges as a way to learn and grow. They can see the opportunities that problems offer and achieve their goals despite their difficulties.

Positivity is vital for mental and physical health, not to mention learning and relationships.

Positive Mindset Quotes

29. “You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.” – Carol Dweck

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

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

32. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

33. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh

34. “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” – Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

35. “When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.” – Napoleon Hill

36. “There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them” – Friedrich Nietzsche

37. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right” – Unknown

38. “We are our choices.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

39. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says I’m possible.” – Audrey Hepburn

40. “Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

41. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

42. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Charles Swindoll

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

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

45. “Everything is figureoutable.” – Marie Forleo 

Quotes about Effort 

In a world of instant gratification, teaching kids about hard work and consistent effort is more important than ever.

A growth mindset helps children believe they can improve their abilities through dedication and effort. When they understand that their goals are directly related to the effort they put in, kids have more control over their learning.

Quotes about Effort

46. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

47. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey

48. “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy-I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” – Art Williams

49. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

50. “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

51. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins

52. “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill

53. “DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.” – Darren Hardy

Mindset Quotes about Courage

Being open to mistakes, failure, and disappointment takes courage. Having a growth mindset means kids are willing to adapt to change and be bold in their goals. It also takes courage to believe in your abilities and accept that you have made mistakes.

When children have the courage to try and explore, they learn about themselves.

Mindset Quotes about Courage

54. “The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.” – Wallace Wattles

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

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

57. “To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits, and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street

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

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

60. “Always do what you are afraid of doing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

61. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela

Mindset Matters 

As parents, we want to help our kids grow into successful adults who are confident and kind. Encouraging a growth mindset is a small but impactful way we can give them the tools to achieve their dreams. It is also a way of thinking we can model. 

So, use these quotes to inspire you and your children as you work on growing your mind together.

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About Caitlin

Caitlin van Wyk is a freelance writer and a mother of two wild boys. She is passionate about offering support and educational content for parents as they navigate the highs and lows of raising kids.

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