Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Nash, Ogden

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

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

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

17.

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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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 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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Mead, Margaret

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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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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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

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chase, Alexander

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Ovid

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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