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

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Robert Orben

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Capp, Al

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

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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

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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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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Angelou, Maya

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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

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

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Shakespeare, William

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Edwards, Harry

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia