Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Epictetus

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

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.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

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

Groucho Marx

14.

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

15.

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

Bruce Barton

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

18.

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

19.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

22.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

31.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

39.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Bergor, Ben

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

Hunt, Leigh

43.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

48.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki