Here is a random list of inspirational quotes and sayings
that can be painted into posters for children.
Please email us with any other good quotes. We'd like to collect hundreds of them.
As an artist, if you have a favorite quote not here, add it and paint it.
This list is just meant to help get started, not to exclude any other quotes people or artists want to use.
Please email us with any other good quotes. We'd like to collect hundreds of them.
As an artist, if you have a favorite quote not here, add it and paint it.
This list is just meant to help get started, not to exclude any other quotes people or artists want to use.
Inspirational Quotes for Children's
Paintings
You can make more friends in two
months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by
trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Scene idea: Show two frames. One a person is pointing to
something another person is holding (book, sculpture, …) indicating he/she is
asking the other about it. This person is surrounded by people looking at
him/her. Next frame person is pointing to himself while surrounded by people
all looking away from him.
All of us tend to put off living. We
are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of
enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Scene idea: Person inside a dark room dreaming of roses,
while outside the house window are sunlight drenched roses.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Swami Kriyananda
Scene idea: Magnet in
person's heart. Person is helping another do something (fix a bike, homework,
…). Other people in the distance are coming being drawn closer.
Reach high, for starts lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.
Mother Teresa
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Reach high, for starts lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.
Mother Teresa
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To create dynamic will power, determine to do some of the
things in life that you thought you could not do. Attempt simple tasks first.
As your confidence strengthens and your will becomes more dynamic, you can aim
for more difficult accomplishments.
Swami Kriyananda
Scene idea: Person
jumping over higher and higher hurdles.
I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier.
Scene idea: Two people standing together. One smiling
person is pointing up trying to get the other to look up, who looks melancholy.
Show a 10 minute timer in the background.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part
of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye,
and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Ann Landers
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The universe will reward you for
taking risks on its behalf. Shakti
Gawain
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If you are patient in one moment of
anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping
a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who
gets burned. Buddha.
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Make happy those who are near, and
those who are far will come. Chinese
Proverb
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To wish you were someone else is to
waste the person you are.
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Obstacles are things a person sees
when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman
E. Joseph Cossman
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Success means doing the best we can
with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not
the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is
in us, becoming all that we can be. Zig
Ziglar
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Watch your desires, they dictate
your thoughts.
Watch your thoughts, they become
words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
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Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. The weak can
never forgive. Mohandas Gandhi
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All successful men and women devote
much time to deep concentration. They are able to dive deeply within their
minds and to find the pearls of right solutions for the problems that confront
them. Paramahansa Yogananda
Scene idea: Person in deep contemplation. Thought bubble
above has a white key made of pearls in it. Outside is a building and a door
with a white keyhole in it. The door leads to some beautiful scene or a
beautiful map.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be
lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau
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Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls and looks like work. Thomas
Edison
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Believe in yourself and all that you
are. Know that there is something inside you greater than any obstacle. Christian D. Larson
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Whatever joy there is in the world
Arises from wishing for others' happiness.
Whatever suffering there is in the world
Arises from wishing for your own happiness.
Arises from wishing for others' happiness.
Whatever suffering there is in the world
Arises from wishing for your own happiness.
Shantideva
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You will become as great as your
dominant aspiration and as small as your controlling desire.
James Lane Allen
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Compulsive concern with 'I, me and mine' isn't the
same as loving ourselves ... Loving ourselves points us to capacities of
resilience, compassion and understanding that are simply part of being alive.
Sharon Salzberg
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that
life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just cease your demand on this moment.
Buddha
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When one door closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller
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Rabindranath Tagore
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just cease your demand on this moment.
Buddha
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When one door closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller
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Even after all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens
with a love like that
it lights the whole world.
Hafiz
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The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracry.
Florence Shinn
Greet every trial with the resolute smile of approaching victory.
Swami Kriyananda
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Make eye contact with everyone you see and smile warmly.
Everyone is an angel deep inside.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought, and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton
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Spiritually Inspiring Quotes for
Children's Paintings
Let nothing disturb you, nothing a fright you, all things will pass but God changes not.
Patient endurance brings you to victory.
Once you have God, you'll want nothing more,
God alone, God alone, God alone is all we ever need.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Scene idea: each one of these line could be their own scene or a scene with the entire verse can be painted.
Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love
permeates every part of creation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Scene idea: Show a
golden olive in center of painting dripping golden drops. Have beautiful
background scene with a golden mist infusing everything.
Ask the Lord to guide your footsteps—and then move your
feet.
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Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and
all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
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Every spiritual
thought you think will be your eternal friend. And every evil inclination you
acquire will be your enemy for a long, long time; it will pursue you until you
slay it. Paramahansa Yogananda
Scene idea: Person standing. Good thought bubble coming
from head and transforming into a strong friend. Another bad thought bubble
coming from head and transforming into an enemy with a knife trying to stab
him.
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly, calm
your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then by guided by the
creative power of Spirit. After that you should utilize all necessary means to
achieve your goal. Paramahansa Yogananda
Scene idea: Person in
meditation contemplating climbing a rock face. Thought bubble is being infused
with a shaft of light from the Spirit above. In the bubble are some rock
climbing equipment. Outside show the
equipment ready to be used and a rock mountain in the distance.
Scene idea: Child in
contemplation, wearing a soccer uniform. In thought bubble a soccer play is
outlined. Outside the child's teammates wait and are ready.
Scene idea: Child in
contemplation. In thought bubble are the plans for a science project. Outside
the materials for the science project are on a table.
Environment is stronger than will
power. If you want to be spiritual, seek good company and don’t mix with those
whose bad habits may wrongly influence you. Be always with people who inspire
you; surround yourself with people who lift you up. Paramahansa Yogananda
Scene idea: Two frames. 1st frame: child
surrounded by friends going off to play some sport (Frisbee, soccer, baseball,
…), uplifting light. 2nd frame: child surrounded by friends smoking,
looking cross, hunched over in dark light.
The power of God is within you, so
when your mind tells you a thing can’t be done, say to that thought, ‘Get out!
It can be done’. And it will be, if you make up your mind.
First, free yourself from wrong thoughts and
habits.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The minutes are more important than the years. If you do not
fill the minutes of your life with thoughts of God, the years will slip by; and
when you need Him most you may be unable to feel His presence. But if you fill
the minutes of your life with divine aspirations, automatically the years will
be saturated with them. Paramahansa
Yogananda
Scene idea: Person
standing. In a thought bubble is a stop
watch, the word "God" is repeated many times inside the watch, in
between each minute marker. Outside a calendar flipping through years has the
word "God" on them. Some beautiful scene.
With every inhale, breathe loving-kindness into your heart
from all the world. With every exhale, send loving-kindness out from your eyes
to all the world.
Scene idea: ? Golden rays going into a person's expanded
chest. Golden rays coming out a person's forehead.
Sharing is the doorway through which the soul escapes the
prison of self-preoccupation. It is one of the clearest paths to God. Nayaswami Kriyananda
Scene idea: ? Person offers something in their hand to
another. The hand is breaking through a portal that shows a path to God.
The birth of that marvelous wish in your soul—the dawning of
that secret dream—was the Voice of God himself telling you to arise and come up
higher because he had need of you. Emmet
Fox
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<<need a quote that says, need to follow God's inspiration
not your own egoic desires for grandeur.>>
Never count your faults. Just think whether you love God enough. He doesn't mind your faults. He minds your indifference.
Paramhansa Yogananda
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Near us is a celestial spirit, who, from the cradle to the tomb, does not leave us for an instant, guides us, protects us as a friend, a brother; will always be a consolation to us especially in our saddest moments.
Padre Pio
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No longer does it make much difference whether or not I have anything from the external world; I have learned to live by inward joy. It is the most beautiful thing that life can offer.
James J. Lynn
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How beautiful it is to go home! There is nothing to weep about. It is joy.
Therese Neumann
spoken shortly before she passed on.
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Quotes already being worked on
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
Scene idea: Enthusiastic person playing a violin with beautiful musical notes coming out of the violin. Show background bubbles of musical notes. The notes become more beautiful in each successive bubble.
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. Basil
Scene idea: Person sowing seeds labeled "good." In the planting row, show a progression of plants from seedling to mature plant. The mature plant has fruit the shape of hearts.
You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer up somebody else. Mark Twain
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A great flame follows a tiny spark.
Dante Alighieri
Lots of people talk to animals, but not very many listen. That's the problem.
Winnie the Pooh 1926
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God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now. African-American Proverb
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