Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Robert Orben

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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.

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

24.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Daniel Raeburn

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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

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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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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

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

Phyllis Diller

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Robert Orben

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dick Cavett

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Moses, Robert

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

Epictetus