Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Bruce Barton

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Hunt, Leigh

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Abbott, Lyman

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

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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

11.

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

12.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

18.

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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

20.

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

Morley, Christopher

21.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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

25.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Plomp, John

32.

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

Baldwin, James

33.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

38.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

40.

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

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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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

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

50.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry