Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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.

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

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

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Oscar Wilde

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Plomp, John

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Proverb, English

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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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

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Bruce Barton

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Capp, Al

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph