Motivational Quotes

Children

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Children

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Edwards, Harry

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

John Gray

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

13.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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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

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

19.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

20.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

23.

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

Moses, Robert

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

John J. Plomp

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

29.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

30.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Dogen

39.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

41.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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 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

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dyer, Wayne

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