Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Wiesel, Elie

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

11.

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

Proverb, English

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

John J. Plomp

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

Bruce Barton

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

34.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

38.

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

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.