Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Capp, Al

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Moses, Robert

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ruskin, John

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Sam Levenson

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

Hunt, Leigh

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Baldwin, James

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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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