Motivational Quotes

Children

Children always turn to the light.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Children

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

Ovid

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bruce Barton

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Moses, Robert

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Morley, Christopher

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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.