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

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Angelou, Maya

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

It takes three to make a child.

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

28.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Peter Ustinov

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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 of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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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 might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Picasso, Pablo

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.