Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Shakespeare, William

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

12.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Groucho Marx

16.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

35.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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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

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Jameson, Anna

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