Quotes About Children To Live By – Spiritual Quotes To Live By – A Resource For Positive Inspiration (2024)

Jacob Abbott1803 – 1879
A child can ask a thousand questionsthat the wisest man cannot answer.

Abraham-Hicks
Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Abraham-Hicks
Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.

Abraham-Hicks
The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

Adele 1988
Everything I do, in every channel of my life, is part of a legacy that I’m making for my child. For my children, if I have more. I’m not motivated by much, certainly not money – but I’m motivated by that.

Whatever my kid wants to do or be, I will always support him no matter what.

Muhammad Ali1942 – 2016
Children make you want to start life over.

Henri Frederic Amiel1821 – 1881
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of Heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep continuing needs, is good for him.

Aristotle384BC – 322BC
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle384BC – 322BC
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Eberhard Arnold 1883 -1935
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Eberhard Arnold 1883 -1935
Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

David Attenborough 1926
Education is not a matter of getting facts and sowing them within brains, but that it is an attitude of mind that you teach children to find out for themselves.

The great heroes and heroines of our society are of course the teachers, and in particular the teachers of kids in their first years. Once a child has been shown what the natural world is, it will live with them forever.

Russell Baker
Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you.. Or they may do it.

James Baldwin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Bruce Barton 1886 – 1967
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift…
Let it be enthusiasm.

David Beckham 1975
When you have kids you grow up. I have just started realizing it now. It changes the world, having children.

Clay B. Bedford
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Henry Ward Beecher 1813 – 1887
Children are the hands by which we take hold of Heaven.

Arlene Benedict
To a child’s ear, ‘Mother’ is magic in any language.

Polly Berends
A sense of worthiness is a child’s most important need.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

The gain is not the having of children, it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Bruno Bettelheim 1903 – 1990
The question for the child is not ‘Do I want to be good?’ but, ‘Whom do I want to be like?’

Bible
Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them; for the kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Black Elk1863 – 1950
Grown men can learn from very little children, for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

W. E. B. Du Bois1868 – 1963
Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.

Erma Bombeck 1927 – 1996
Children make your life important.

Carol Bowman1950
Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.

Robert Brault
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker…
until they figure it out for themselves.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Robert Brault
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy too.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most of her own child and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

Why explain miracles to your kids, when you can just have them plant a garden?

Pam Brown 1948
Always smile back at little children.
To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved – and therefore he lives.

A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is outgrown.

However time or circ*mstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Always kiss your children goodnight…even if they’re asleep.

Emilie Buchwald 1935
Children are made readers in the laps of their parents.

Edmund Burke1729 – 1797
Example is the school of mankind,and they will learn at no other.

Lorna Byrne 1953
Children are our future, and the only way for the world to evolve, as I have been shown it should be, is for each generation to be more loving and compassionate than the one before. This is only possible if we support the children around us, and protect and encourage them so that they don’t need to lock their love away.

Mary Calderone 1904 – 1998
Our children are not going to be just ‘our children’ – they are going to be other people’s husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Charles S. Calverley1831 – 1884
I love to gaze upon a child…a young bud bursting into blossom.

George Carlin1937 – 2008
Don’t just teach your children to read.
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.

Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Andrew Carnegie 1835 – 1919
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washer-woman, cook, teacher, angel and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar and friend. No servants to come between them. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

Rachel Carson 1907 – 1964
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Pablo Casals1876 – 1973
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

May Ellen Chase 1887 – 1973
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Anton Pavolovich Chekhov1860 – 1904
Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.

Lydia Maria Child 1802 – 1880
In early childhood, you lay the foundation of poverty or riches, in the habits you give your children. Teach them to save everything, not for their own use, for that would make them selfish, but for some use. Teach them to share everything with their playmates; but never allow them to destroy anything.

Doc Childre
An Aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with… For you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

Agatha Christie1890 – 1976
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Agatha Christie1890 – 1976
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Crystal DeLarm Clymer
When your child is talking.. Turn the world off.

Paulo Coelho1947
A child can teach an adult three things…
To be happy for no reason.
To always be busy with something.
And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Colonial Child’s Prayer
God bless everybody I love.
God bless everybody who loves me.
God bless everybody who loves everybody I love.
And everybody who loves everybody who loves me.

Marcelene Cox
The illusions of childhood are necessary experiences; a child should not be denied a balloon because an adult knows that sooner or later it will burst.

Monta Crane
There are three ways to get something done…
Do it yourself.
Employ someone to do it for you.
Or, forbid your children from doing it!

Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990
Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Matt Damon1970
I think what’s important for kids to know is that your decisions here on Earth matter, your behaviour matters and how you treat other people matters.

If I had a bucket list, I’d say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be number one.

Mark Desaux
If your life inspires just one child…Your life has been a success.

Zooey Deschanel1980
I think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.

Princess Diana1961 – 1997
Hugs can do great amounts of good…especially for children.

Kate DiCamillo 1964
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Rosaleen Dickson
Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

FyodorDostoevsky1821 – 1881
The Soul is healed by being with children.

Frederick Douglas1818 – 1895
It is easier to build strong children,than to repair broken men.

Wayne Dyer1940 – 2015
Let them follow their own compass.

Wayne Dyer1940 – 2015
Once you see a child’s self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.

Wayne Dyer1940 – 2015
Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live, rather than what you say.

Marion Wright Edelman 1939
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803 – 1882
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ignacio Estrada
If a child can’t learn the way we teach,
maybe we should teach the way they learn.

Euripides 480BC – 406BC
All men know their children mean more than life.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Paula Fox1923
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an Awakener.

Robert Fulghum 1937
Don’t worry that children never listen to you..
Worry that they are always watching you.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Chief Dan George 1899 – 1981
If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

The only thing necessary for tranquility in the world is that every child grows up happy.

Papiha Ghosh
In my Soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

Kahlil Gibran1884 – 1931
Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their Soul, for their Soul belongs in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness, for even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Haim Ginott1922 – 1973
Children are like wet cement..whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Haim Ginott1922 – 1973
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Rudolph Giuliani 1944
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humour, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749 – 1832
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

It’s not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain.

Emma Goldman 1869 – 1940
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the Soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Richelle E. Goodrich
A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

Amy Grant1960
I love being with my children, they’re fascinating people.

Graham Greene1904 – 1991
There is always one moment in childhood…
when the door opens and lets the future in.

Edgar Guest 1881 – 1959
Children… they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.

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