Motivational Quotes

Children

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Mead, Margaret

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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.

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

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

11.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

12.

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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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

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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

John J. Plomp

29.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

31.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

32.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Ruskin, John

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

Morley, Christopher

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

John Gray

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Robert Byrne

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Angelou, Maya

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.