Motivational Quotes

Children

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Epictetus

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Plomp, John

10.

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

11.

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

Montessori, Maria

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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

15.

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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

18.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

19.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Moustakas, Clark

21.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

22.

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

Robert Orben

23.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

24.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

25.

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

26.

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

Groucho Marx

27.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

29.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

34.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

38.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

39.

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

40.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

42.

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

Norman Douglas

44.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Kraus, Karl

46.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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