Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilmot, John

Best Quotes about Children

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Edwards, Harry

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Norman Douglas

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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 poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Groucho Marx

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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

27.

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

Epictetus

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

32.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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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

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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

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

Sam Levenson

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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