Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Crane, Monta

Best Quotes about Children

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Edwards, Harry

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Norman Douglas

10.

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

Plomp, John

11.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

12.

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

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

15.

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

16.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

17.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

18.

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

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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

20.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

21.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

28.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

29.

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

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Epictetus

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

Fran Lebowitz

37.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

38.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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

40.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

45.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Angelou, Maya

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