Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Jones, Franklin P.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Pope, Alexander

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

10.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

11.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

12.

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.

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

14.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

15.

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

Nash, Ogden

16.

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

Morley, Christopher

17.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

22.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

23.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

24.

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

25.

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

Dick Cavett

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mead, Margaret

28.

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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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

30.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

31.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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

33.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Moustakas, Clark

43.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

44.

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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

48.

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

Wiesel, Elie

49.

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

Wilde, Oscar