Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Dick Cavett

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

10.

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

11.

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

Moses, Robert

12.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Crane, Monta

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

22.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

23.

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

Chase, Alexander

24.

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

Oscar Wilde

25.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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

28.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

Capp, Al

30.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

31.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

33.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

34.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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

36.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

37.

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

38.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

39.

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

40.

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

Plomp, John

41.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

42.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

44.

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

45.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

49.

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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie