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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Curie, Madame Marie

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Ovid

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lewin, Roger

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Robert Orben

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

Robert Orben

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

Baldwin, James

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

Groucho Marx

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

John J. Plomp

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

Jones, Franklin P.