Motivational Quotes

Children

It's fun being a kid.

- Angier, Bradford Arthur

Best Quotes about Children

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Abbott, Lyman

10.

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

Dogen

11.

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

Kraus, Karl

12.

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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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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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

15.

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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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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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

19.

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

Who, Dr.

20.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

21.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

22.

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

24.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

25.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

26.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

27.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

29.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

32.

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

Bruce Barton

33.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

34.

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

35.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

37.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Moustakas, Clark

40.

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

Ball, Lucille

41.

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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

46.

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

47.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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