Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Children

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Groucho Marx

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Robert Byrne

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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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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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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

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

Dick Cavett

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

Who, Dr.

25.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Sam Levenson

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

Eliot, George

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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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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Plomp, John

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

Bruce Barton

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb