Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Children

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

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Waitley, Denis

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hulbert, Harold

10.

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

Groucho Marx

11.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

12.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Mary MacCracken

31.

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

Robert Orben

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ovid

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

Who, Dr.

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Plomp, John

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

Capp, Al

47.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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