Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Byrne

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Daniel Raeburn

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

10.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Abbott, Lyman

12.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

13.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

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

16.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

19.

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

Eliot, George

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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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Epictetus

25.

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 reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

27.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

28.

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

Capp, Al

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Robert Orben

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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

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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