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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

John J. Plomp

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Groucho Marx

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Capp, Al

32.

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

34.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

35.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

37.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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There is no sinner like a young saint.