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

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Kraus, Karl

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

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

10.

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

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

16.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

18.

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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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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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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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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

36.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne