Motivational Quotes

Children

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Best Quotes about Children

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

John Gray

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Jameson, Anna

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hulbert, Harold

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Curie, Madame Marie