Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Eliot, George

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

10.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

12.

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

Edwards, Harry

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Hulbert, Harold

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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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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

21.

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

22.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

27.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

Plomp, John

29.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

30.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

32.

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

Who, Dr.

33.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

34.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

35.

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

Proverb, English

36.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

37.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

39.

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

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

45.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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