Motivational Quotes

Children

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Baldwin, James

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

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Dick Cavett

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Moses, Robert

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Bruce Barton

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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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

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.