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

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Jameson, Anna

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Hunt, Leigh

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

Dogen

15.

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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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

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

19.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

23.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

24.

It takes three to make a child.

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

25.

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

26.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

27.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

28.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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 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

33.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

34.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

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

Dick Cavett

39.

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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

41.

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

42.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

43.

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

Plomp, John

44.

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

Moses, Robert

45.

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

Proverb

46.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

47.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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.