Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Children

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

Churchill, Winston

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

11.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Robert Orben

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Ruskin, John

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Peter Ustinov

25.

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

Robert Orben

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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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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

29.

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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Crane, Monta

48.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra