Motivational Quotes

Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pope, Alexander

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

Angelou, Maya

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Baldwin, James

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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

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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

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

Robert Byrne

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Robert Orben

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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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.

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Mary MacCracken

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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

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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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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Epictetus

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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