Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Dick Cavett

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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 see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Groucho Marx

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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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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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.