Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Ruskin, John

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.