Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Capp, Al

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Chase, Alexander

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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Ruskin, John

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

Epictetus

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Nash, Ogden

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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.