A well-read mind can develop a thoughtful understanding of the world. Reading is a habit that can help children to learn, grow and observe things around them.
You can introduce kids to good books and inspiring characters to ignite their curiosity. Children can fill their mental space with fantasies, unreal characters, and wonderful lessons.
It is also a great way to teach values and lessons to kids. Reading can make learning easier, more fun, and more interesting.
Here are some of the best inspirational quotes for kids to motivate them for reading more enthusiastically.
1. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” –Dr. Seuss
2. “Books train your imagination to think big.” -Taylor Swift
3.“It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” -Jane Hamilton
4. “Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting, and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives us a terrific advantage.” – Roald Dahl
5. “From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.” -Helen Hayes
6. “It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” – S.I. Hayakawa
7. “Kids lose themselves in books, they find themselves there too.” -Lewis Keegan
8. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” -Jim Rohn
9. “Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart.” –Oprah Winfrey
10. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” – Honore de Balzac
11. “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” – Margaret Walker.
12. “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein.
13. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller.
14. “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” – Roald Dahl, Matilda.
15. “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” – James Russell Lowell
16. “The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul: books.” – Emily Dickinson.
17. “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” – Frank Serafini.
18. “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke.
19. “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
20. “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” – Henry David Thoreau.
21. “Education is the most powerful tool, which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
22. “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.”– Helen Keller
23. “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” – Mark Twain
24. “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” – Kofi Annan.
25. “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” – Charles Baudelaire.
26. “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray
Go throw your TV set away
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall…” – Roald Dahl, ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’.
27. “It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.” – Katherine Patters
28. “How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It’s not something you send your kids off to do, ‘Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or else.’ It becomes a task then.” – Kate DiCamillo
29. “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.” – Stephen King.
30. “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” – Abraham Lincoln.
31. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
32. ‘Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens
33. “Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.” – Ray Merritt
34. “Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.” – C.S. Lewis
35. “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”– Dolly Parton
36. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
37. “Every child is born a genius.” – Buckminster Fuller
38. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.”– Jess Lair
39. “Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.”– Diana, Princess of Wales
40. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein
41. “When you know better you do better.” – Maya Angelou
42. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
43. “So many books, so little time.“ -Frank Zappa
44. “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” -Lena Dunham
45. “I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.” -Coolio
46. “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” -Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
47. “Reading is dreaming with open eyes.” -Unknown
48. “If a book is well written I always find it too short.” -Jane Austen
49. “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx
50. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” -Anna Quindlen
51. “Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.” -Oprah Winfrey
52. “I am part of everything that I have ever read.” -Theodore Roosevelt
53. “The books transported her into a new world and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” -Matilda by Roald Dahl
54. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books. And that’s kind of the same thing.” -Unknown
55. “There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle. And a very happy start.” –Every Thing on It by Shel Silverstein
56. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled is a spark.” -Victor Hugo
57. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
58. “Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” – Arnold Lobel
59. “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J.K. Rowling
60. “A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” – Samuel Johnson
Conclusion
These motivational reading quotes for students can help them to read and learn more actively. If you want your kids to learn better and want them to become thoughtful individuals, then explain to them the importance of reading with the help of these inspirational quotes about reading. Children can learn about the amazing world around them with the help of books and the lessons books teach.
