I have selected from the book: “101 ideas on how to provide financial education to your child” the 101 quotes that are relevant to the respective chapter and to the idea discussed within each chapter.
Each chapter of the 101 (yes, the book has many pages: just over 200) offers you a theoretical perspective of the idea and a practical one, including practical activities through which you can educate your child from a financial point of view.
- “The child laughs: my wisdom and love is the game! The young man sings: my wisdom and love is the game! The old man is silent: my love and my game is the wisdom!” Lucian Blaga, “Three Faces”
- A person’s first word is mother, the last is mother. The world rests on the caress of mothers. Mikhail Lezinsky
- Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement, and action has an effect. No other person or external force has a greater influence on a child than a parent. (Bob Keeshan)
- Children represent the future, they encourage, support, and guide them. (Catherine Pulsifer)
- Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement, and action has an effect. No other person or external force has a greater influence on a child than a parent. (Bob Keeshan)
5. There is always a moment in our childhood when the door opens and lets the future in! – Deepak Chopra
- Accept children as we accept trees – with gratitude, because they are a blessing – but have no expectations or desires. You don’t expect a tree to change, you love it just the way it is. – Isabel Allende
- “It is not what you do for your child, but what you teach him to do for himself, that will help him to be a complete man.”
Ann Landers
8. Children must be taught what will be useful to them when they grow up. Aristippus
9. What is a child? An experiment. It is a new attempt to perfect honest man; that is, to make man a divinity. George Bernard Shaw
10 If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney
11 “The more we protect children from disappointments, the more they will have them” – Fred G. Gosman
12 Children teach adults not to get lost in business and to remain free. M. Prishvin
13 Education is the most powerful weapon with which we can change the world. – Nelson Mandela
14 “It is not too much love that spoils a child, but too little discipline” – Gaveo
15 The purpose of education is to teach our children how to manage without us. E. Leguwe
16 Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. (Vladimir Lenin)
17 “When you finally return to your parental home, you discover that, in fact, you did not miss your old home, but your childhood.” Sam Ewing
18 The role of the adult is to teach the child with love what limits mean, otherwise life will teach him, but without love… – Paul Polk Lillard
19 A child changes your life in all aspects – of course, for the better. The sacrifices are certainly very great, but in return you will get much more. In a word, I feel that I am ready to die, because my life already continues in my daughter. Heath Ledger
20 Childhood is the gift that life gives us. – Horatiu Malaele
21 Seven things every child needs to hear: I love you, I’m proud of you, I’m sorry, I forgive you, I listen, It’s your responsibility, you have what it takes. (Josh Shipp)
22 Education of the mind without education of the heart is no education. – Aristotle
23 Only with the heart can we see well. What is most important can only be seen with the heart. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
24 Children inherit the madness of their parents. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25 In childhood you want everything, in youth and maturity something, in old age nothing. – Leo Tolstoy
26 Childhood is a mirror that reflects in later life the first images. – Samuel Smiles
27 It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. (Ann Landers)
28 Children who have never seen peace and children who have never seen war have different ideas about justice. One Piece
29 Play gives children the opportunity to practice what they have learned. – Mr. Rogers
30 “To love a child is not to indulge his every whim; to love him is to bring out the best in him and to teach him to love hardship.” Nadia Boulanger
31 We prepare children for the future if we continue to teach them today as we taught them yesterday. D. Dewey
32 Childhood is the world of wonder and magic. Childhood ends when things stop being amazing. When the world gives you a sense of deja vu, when you are worn out by existence, you become an adult. – Eugen Ionescu
33 Children deserve to be loved and to know that they are loved. They deserve to be cherished and to know that they are valuable. (Dave Ramsey)
34 Sometimes the best way to help our children is not to help them. – Kristen Welch
35 “Children should be raised for themselves, not for their parents” – Nicolae Iorga
36 You can tell a child everything, everything; it has always amazed me how little the grown-ups, fathers and even mothers, know their children. You should not hide anything from children under the pretext that they are still small and it is too early for them to know anything. What a sad and unfortunate idea! And how well children realize that their parents think they are too small and too ignorant, when in reality they understand everything. The adult does not know that, even in the most difficult matter, the child can give him useful advice. – F. M. Dostoevsky
37 Education is our passport to the future, because tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it. – Malcolm X
38 “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think” – Margaret Mead
39 Only with the heart can we see well. What is most important can only be seen with the heart. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
40 An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin
41 To educate children requires talent and a broad knowledge of life. Maxim Gorky
42 Parents with their words, attitudes and actions possess the ability to bless or curse the identity of their children. (Craig Hill)
43 “Where did we get this crazy idea that in order to get kids to do better, we first have to make them feel worse? Think about the last time you were humiliated or wronged. Did you want to cooperate or do better?” Jane Nelsen
44 First, we are children of our parents, then parents of our children, then parents of our parents, then children for our children. (Milton Greenblatt)
45The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. (Denis Waitley)
46 “Don’t stand behind the door when the child cries with only one desire, that of touching you. Go to your child. Go to him a million times. Prove to him that he can trust people, that he can trust the environment, that we live in a harmless universe.” Peggy O’Mara
47 Education never ends. You don’t read a book, pass an exam and that’s it. Your whole life is a process of education, from the moment you are born until you disappear. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
48 “I brought children into this dark world because I needed the light that only a child can bring.” – Liz Armbruster
49 “Your child will become what you are. Become what you want them to become.” – David Bly
50 . “A person is a person, no matter how small.” Dr. Seuss
51 No pastime is as cheap as reading, and no pleasure is as great as reading a book. -Mary Wortley Montagu
52 Raising a child is not a pleasant time, but a job in which you have to invest the efforts of sleepless nights, the capital of hard feelings and a lot of thought. Janusz Korczak
53 Education is not the learning of facts, but helping the mind to exercise its thinking. – Albert Einstein
54 Old men can make war, but only children will make history. Ray Meritt
55 A child’s life is a huge experiment. Alfred Adler
56 As the child grows, the relationship becomes complex, with the mother taking on different roles in the child’s life, often growing into a healthy adult relationship of mutual respect. (Sarah Goldberg)
57 “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead
58 There is often a deep meaning in children’s play. Johann Schiller
59 If you don’t know who your children are, look at their friends. Xun Tzu
60 Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, imagination, creativity. V. A. Sukhomlinsky
61 It’s not about what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves. That’s how they will become successful people. – Ann Landers
62 “Adults, like children, will fight with all their heart to defend their freedom when they feel that someone is forcing them to change their behavior, even though they are not bothering anyone at all.”
63 If you meet someone who is not smiling, give them your smile. – Dolly Parton
64 I have had my moments of madness. But there is a certain responsibility to set positive examples for your children, and this influences the choices you make in every aspect of your life. Andy Garcia
65 Children do not distract you from the more important work. They are the most important part of your work. – C.S. Lewis
66 Education is not about filling a pot, but about lighting a fire. – William Butler Yeats
67 If you want to raise successful people out of your children, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. – Abigal Van Buren
68 A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has the right to be wrong and that he does not always have to be right. – Thomas Szasz
69 There are only two lasting legacies we hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
70 The goal of early education should be to activate the child’s natural interest in learning. – Maria Montessori
71 I have found that the best way to give advice to my children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do that thing… 🙂 – Harry S. Truman, American President
72 The first idea that a child must acquire is the difference between good and evil. – Maria Montessori
73 If you know how to diagnose a child’s joy, the intensity of his joy, then you should have noticed that the greatest joy is the joy of overcoming difficulties, achieving goals, revealing secrets, the joy of victory and the joy of independence, mastery, possession. Janusz Korczak
74 What you do to children, that is what they will do to society. Karl Menninger
75 “What the child does not receive, very rarely happens that he can later give” – P.D. James
76 “If a child lives in a spirit of acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love everywhere” – Dorothy Law Neite
- Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory of our children. (Charles R. Swindoll)
78You can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light. Plato
79 Childhood is not from a certain age, and at a certain age the child has grown up and takes all childish things and puts them aside. Childhood is the kingdom where no one dies. Stephanie Meyer
80 Children are naturally creative. It is our responsibility to provide them with the freedom, materials, and space to flourish in a way that allows their creativity to flourish. – Jean Vant Hul
81 Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards—the things we live by and teach our children—are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. (Walt Disney)
82 “People never grow up, they just learn how to behave in public.” Bryan White
83 Children are like fresh cement. Whatever falls on them leaves its mark.” Dr. Hiam Ginnot
84 Children sweeten our labor, but they make our misfortune much more bitter. Francis Bacon
85 Give me four years to teach children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. (Vladimir Lenin)
86 To let a child do only what he wants when he has not yet developed a center of control is to betray the idea of freedom. – Maria Montessori
87 “If you do not know what harbor you want to reach, no wind is favorable.” Seneca –
88 The child is not an empty being who owes us everything he knows. No, the child is the builder of the adult. There is no man who has not been formed by the child he was at some point. – Maria Montessori
89 “There is something about childhood friends that you can’t replace.” Lisa Whelchel
90 “Childhood is the heart of all ages.” Lucian Blaga
91 It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. (Ann Landers)
92 “Play is the highest form of inquiry.” Albert Einstein
93 When a child goes outside, the whole world is offered to him. Let’s take him outside to show him real things instead of representations of ideas and not keep him indoors. – Maria Montessori
94 One of the tests of the correctness of education is whether the child is happy. – Maria Montessori
95 The more risks we let children take, the better they will learn to take care of themselves. – Roald Dahl
96 You will never be too well-dressed or too educated. – Oscar Wilde
97 “When parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” Elbert Hubbard
98 Never help a child do something that he thinks he can do for himself. – Maria Montessori
99 If a child has a parent who listens then he/she will believe in him/her. He/she will believe that he/she has a voice that matters in this world.- Rachel Macy Stafford
100 “The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
Peter De Vries
101 “If you are a parent, open the doors to unknown directions for your child to explore. Don’t make him/her afraid of the unknown, give him/her support.” Osho
I have compiled this list with all 101 quotes. Which one do you like the most?
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Good luck in becoming aware of money and the importance of financial education done early in life!




