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

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Kraus, Karl

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Ball, Lucille

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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