Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Oscar Wilde

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Angelou, Maya

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

13.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

17.

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

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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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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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

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

28.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Proverb, English

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

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

John J. Plomp

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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 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

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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

42.

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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.