Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Rabbinical Saying

Best Quotes about Children

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

Norman Douglas

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

Ruskin, John

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Bruce Barton

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

Capp, Al

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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 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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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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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

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

Robert Orben

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Hulbert, Harold

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