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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Eliot, George

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

10.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

12.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

15.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

16.

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

John Gray

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

18.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Bruce Barton

21.

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

Chase, Alexander

23.

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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

25.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

26.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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

28.

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

29.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

30.

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

31.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

32.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

33.

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

Moses, Robert

34.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

38.

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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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.

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

Plomp, John

41.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

42.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Peter Ustinov

47.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Hulbert, Harold