Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Jameson, Anna

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

15.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

25.

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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

27.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

28.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

29.

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

Robert Byrne

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

35.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Peter Ustinov

40.

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

John J. Plomp

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

44.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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 are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.