Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

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

Robert Orben

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Moses, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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.

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson