Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Kraus, Karl

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Ball, Lucille

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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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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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

16.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

19.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

20.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

21.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

22.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

26.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Wilmot, John

29.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

32.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

33.

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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

37.

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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

40.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Chase, Alexander

47.

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

Rabbinical Saying

48.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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