Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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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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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Mary MacCracken

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

John Gray

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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

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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Epictetus

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

Morley, Christopher

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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