Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bruce Barton

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Oscar Wilde

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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 suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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

Epictetus

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Rabbinical Saying