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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Baldwin, James

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

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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hulbert, Harold

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Plomp, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Groucho Marx

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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.

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus