Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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

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

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

11.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

13.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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 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 unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

19.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Groucho Marx

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lawana Blackwell

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