Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Kraus, Karl

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Waitley, Denis

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

John J. Plomp

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

25.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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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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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

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Capp, Al

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Lewin, Roger

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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