Motivational Quotes

Children

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Children

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Edwards, Harry

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

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Nash, Ogden

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Churchill, Winston

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Plomp, John

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Robert Orben

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

36.

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 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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Groucho Marx

44.

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

Epictetus

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton