Motivational Quotes

Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Peter Ustinov

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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

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

14.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

15.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mead, Margaret

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

27.

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

Robert Orben

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

32.

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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

34.

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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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Proverb

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

Baldwin, James

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

Who, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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