Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about Children

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

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

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Plomp, John

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

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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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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Robert Orben

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Capp, Al

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Mead, Margaret

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Bruce Barton