Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Chase, Alexander

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

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

12.

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

14.

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

Morley, Christopher

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

18.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

20.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Fran Lebowitz

23.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

24.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Crane, Monta

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

Proverb

29.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

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

Rabbinical Saying

33.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

34.

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

Ovid

35.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

37.

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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

40.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

41.

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

Epictetus

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

48.

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

King Edward VIII

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