Motivational Quotes

Children

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

- Cottle, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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

Epictetus

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dick Cavett

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

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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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

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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

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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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Robert Orben

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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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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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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 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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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 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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Bruce Barton

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

John J. Plomp

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary