Free printable coloring pages for kids

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

A poet who turned a hard childhood into some of the most quoted words in America.

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

Rejected by twelve publishers before the first Harry Potter book found a home.

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

A grocer's daughter who became Britain's first woman prime minister.

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

A shy child who grew up to help write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

Thirty-nine Grand Slam titles, and a lifetime spent fighting for equal play.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.”

A Roman orator whose ideas about thankfulness are still quoted two thousand years on.

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.”

The scientist who taught a generation to look up and ask better questions.

“Creativity takes courage.”

He picked up a paintbrush at twenty-one and changed how the world sees colour.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

A curious kid with a compass who grew up to rewrite the rules of the universe.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

The author of the Declaration of Independence, and a lifelong reader.

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

The essayist who told Americans to trust their own minds.

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

From a farm in Mississippi to the most-watched talk show in the world.

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

The president who gave a country a goal and a deadline: the moon.

“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

The most powerful man in Rome, writing private notes to himself about staying calm.

“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Born enslaved, he became one of the most quoted teachers in history.

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.”

The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, at a time when few believed she could.

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

The inventor of the light bulb, who treated every failed test as one wrong answer crossed off.

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

The first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes, who studied by candlelight to get there.

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

Born into slavery and forbidden to read, he taught himself and became a voice for freedom.

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

A former janitor who became the best-known performance coach in the world.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

The ancient Chinese thinker who wrote the Tao Te Ching, still read 2,600 years later.

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

Self-taught in a log cabin, he lost several elections before leading the country.

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

He was knocked down again and again, and kept moving forward without violence.

“Well done is better than well said.”

He left school at ten, taught himself everything, and started America’s first lending library.

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

He helped lead India to independence without ever using violence.

“Learning without thought is labor lost.”

The Chinese teacher whose sayings are still read 2,500 years later.

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

He struggled to learn to read as a boy and became one of America’s best-known generals.

“It ain't over till it's over.”

Told he was too small to make it, he won ten World Series titles.

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

A sickly, asthmatic boy who built himself into a cowboy, soldier, and president.

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”

He picked cotton as a boy and taught himself the guitar that made him famous.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

Imprisoned 27 years, he chose forgiveness and led South Africa.

“Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small.”

He failed exams and lost elections, then led Britain through World War II.

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

Exiled from his homeland, he spent his life teaching compassion and peace.

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

His animal fables have taught lessons about character for 2,500 years.

“Fortune favors the bold.”

A farm boy who became Rome’s greatest poet and wrote the Aeneid.

“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

A small-town lifeguard who saved 77 people and later became president.

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”

Deaf and blind from infancy, she became a celebrated author and advocate.

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

He self-published Leaves of Grass and spent his life celebrating ordinary people.

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”

He started Apple in a garage, was fired, and came back to invent the iPhone.

“We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

He taught that character is built by practice, the same way any skill is.

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.”

He practiced with a sock stuffed with newspaper and won three World Cups.

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

His first two car companies failed before he built the Model T.

“He who is brave is free.”

A Roman writer who taught that facing your fears is what makes you free.

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

He wrote 38 plays and invented hundreds of words we still use today.

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

He painted the Mona Lisa and filled notebooks with inventions centuries ahead of his time.

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

Three-time heavyweight champion who spent his life helping people around the world.

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

Cut from his high school team as a sophomore, he practiced his way to six NBA championships.

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

The painter who invented Cubism and never stopped trying things he had not mastered yet.

“There is no way around hard work. Embrace it.”

Twenty Grand Slam titles built on thousands of quiet hours of practice.

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

The Athenian philosopher who taught by asking questions and admitting what he did not know.

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

The coach who won five NFL championships by demanding effort, practice, and teamwork.

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

The Little Tramp of silent film, who turned hard times into comedy the whole world loved.

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”

The rope-twirling Oklahoma humorist who taught America to laugh and look forward.

“Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.”

The riverboat pilot turned storyteller who taught the world to laugh at its own mistakes.

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

The scientist who sat quietly in the forest until wild chimpanzees trusted her, and changed how we see animals.