Motivational Quotes

Children

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Plomp, John

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Morley, Christopher

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

10.

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

Daniel Raeburn

11.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

12.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

13.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

15.

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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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

18.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

25.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

Robert Byrne

30.

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

Dogen

31.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

32.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

33.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

34.

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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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

39.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

40.

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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

44.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

45.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

46.

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

Groucho Marx

47.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

48.

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

49.

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

Chase, Alexander

50.

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