Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Moses, Robert

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Baldwin, James

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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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 best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

John J. Plomp

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Peter Ustinov