Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Angelou, Maya

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Kraus, Karl

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

35.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Robert Orben

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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