Inspirational Children Quotes

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

  R. J. Palacio

  Children, Love Yourself, Life Is Good

  "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Life Lesson

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Friday, Mother

  "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Sweet Love, Book

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

  Roald Dahl

  Eye, Secret Places, Magic In The World

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• The more you give, the more you can give.

  Roy T. Bennett

  True Love, Baby, Generous Love

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  William P. Young

  Children, Healing, Healed You

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• 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

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Children

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• Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• The soul is healed by being with children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Spiritual, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspiring, Book, Secret Places

  Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

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