Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

11.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Who, Dr.

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Daniel Raeburn

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Capp, Al

21.

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

22.

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

Robert Orben

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

25.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Oscar Wilde

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

38.

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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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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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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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.