Motivational Quotes

Children

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jameson, Anna

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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lewin, Roger

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Proverb, English

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Freud, Sigmund

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Plomp, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

48.

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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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