Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb

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

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

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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Epictetus

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Ovid

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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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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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Chase, Alexander

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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