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

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Dorothy Parker

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

John Gray

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.