Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Children

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

12.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

John J. Plomp

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Ovid

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

John Gray

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

Montessori, Maria

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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