Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Children

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis 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.

Landers, Ann

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

10.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

11.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

14.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

15.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

16.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

18.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

19.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

21.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

22.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

23.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

24.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

25.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

29.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

30.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

31.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

33.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

34.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

41.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

42.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

43.

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

46.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

49.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy