Motivational Quotes

Children

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

- Spolin, Viola

Best Quotes about Children

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

15.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

30.

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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Robert Orben

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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

42.

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

Mary MacCracken

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

44.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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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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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

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Crane, Monta