Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

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

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

10.

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

Peter Ustinov

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

21.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

25.

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

Proverb, English

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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

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

30.

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

Edwards, Harry

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

33.

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

Plomp, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

42.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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