Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Children

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Montessori, Maria

19.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Capp, Al

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

30.

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

John J. Plomp

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Chase, Alexander

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

35.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

36.

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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Oscar Wilde

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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