Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Nash, Ogden

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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