Motivational Quotes

Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

- Cosby, Bill

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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

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

Montessori, Maria

10.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

29.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Epictetus

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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 best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

41.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess