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

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Groucho Marx

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Norman Douglas

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

11.

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

Groucho Marx

12.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Jameson, Anna

16.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

22.

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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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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

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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

27.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

28.

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

29.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

30.

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

Rabbinical Saying

31.

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

32.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

33.

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

34.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

35.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

37.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

38.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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

40.

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

Hunt, Leigh

41.

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

Bombeck, Erma

42.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

44.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

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

46.

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

Moses, Robert

47.

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

Robert Orben

48.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.