Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Hulbert, Harold

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

10.

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

Wilmot, John

11.

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

12.

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

Bruce Barton

13.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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

16.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

17.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

18.

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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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

20.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

23.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

24.

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

25.

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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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

28.

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

Phyllis Diller

29.

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.

30.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

33.

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

Morley, Christopher

34.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

35.

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

38.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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

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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 see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Rabbinical Saying

45.

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

Plomp, John

46.

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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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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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb