Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Robert Orben

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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

39.

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Jones, Franklin P.