Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Norman Douglas

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

10.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

11.

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

12.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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

14.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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

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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

20.

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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Kraus, Karl

25.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

27.

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.

28.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

29.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

30.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

33.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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

38.

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

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Peter Ustinov

45.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

47.

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

Robert Orben

48.

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

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne