Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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 happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Chase, Alexander

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Moustakas, Clark

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Who, Dr.

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

18.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

19.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Wilmot, John

21.

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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

31.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

32.

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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

34.

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

John J. Plomp

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

39.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

41.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

43.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

45.

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

Baldwin, James

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

47.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

49.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse