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

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

Oscar Wilde

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Hunt, Leigh

10.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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 of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Chase, Alexander

32.

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

Rabbinical Saying

33.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

34.

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

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

44.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

45.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

46.

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

47.

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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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry