Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Abbott, Lyman

Best Quotes about Children

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

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

Moses, Robert

15.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

16.

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

17.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Norman Douglas

22.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

25.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Montessori, Maria

27.

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

Wilmot, John

28.

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

Baldwin, James

29.

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

30.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

31.

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

John Gray

32.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

33.

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

34.

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

Edwards, Harry

35.

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

Dick Cavett

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

38.

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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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

40.

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

41.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

42.

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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

45.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

46.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

47.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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