- "Work is love made visible" -- Gibron
- "One is tempted to say children are performing spiritual exercises, having found the path of self-perfectionment and of ascent to the inner heights of soul" -- Maria Montessori
- "It is important to give the right work." -- Gita
- "The mind needs to work continuously." -- Gita
- "Spiritual development is to keep it always busy in healthy occupations" -- Gita
- "The devil enters the idle mind." -- Gita
- "The indolent man cannot be spiritual" -- Gita
- "The essential thing is for the task to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality" -- Maria Montessori
- "Never speak ill of the child in his presence or absense" -- Maria Montessori
- "Respect the child that takes rest, or watches others working, or ponders over what he himself has done, or will do" -- Maria Montessori
- "Help those who are in search of activity and cannot find it" -- Maria Montessori
- "Always treat the child with the best of good manners and offer him the best you have in yourself and at your disposal" -- Maria Montessori
- "Concentrate on strengthening and helping the development of what is good in the child so that its presence may leave less and less space for evil" -- Maria Montessori
- "Be ever ready to answer the call of the child who stands in need of you and always listen and respond to the child who appeals to you" -- Maria Montessori
- "Young children talk a lot" -- Maria Montessori
