Motivational Quotes

Children

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gray, Thomas

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

10.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

11.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

John Gray

13.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

14.

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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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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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

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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

27.

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.

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

31.

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

32.

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

34.

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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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

40.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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