Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Bruce Barton

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

10.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

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

12.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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

14.

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

Groucho Marx

15.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

17.

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

Baldwin, James

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

23.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

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

25.

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

Ziglar, Zig

26.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

29.

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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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

Phyllis Diller

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

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

John Gray

39.

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

Morley, Christopher

40.

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

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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

42.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

43.

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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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.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

47.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

48.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

49.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton