Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Peter Ustinov

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Robert Orben

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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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

John Gray

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lewin, Roger

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Groucho Marx

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

Plomp, John

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal