Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Ovid

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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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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

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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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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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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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

24.

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

25.

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

Moustakas, Clark

26.

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

35.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

37.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

40.

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

Plomp, John

42.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

44.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne