Motivational Quotes

Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

Best Quotes about Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

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

Plomp, John

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Capp, Al

13.

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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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

16.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

17.

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

Montessori, Maria

18.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

19.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

20.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

26.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

27.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

28.

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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

31.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

34.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

35.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

42.

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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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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

48.

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

Dick Cavett

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.