Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

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

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Epictetus

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Lewin, Roger

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

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

25.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Ovid

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Never have children, only grand children.