Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Children

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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

Jameson, Anna

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Proverb

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Churchill, Winston

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Lawana Blackwell

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

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

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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

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.