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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Tauscher, Stacia

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

11.

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

Mead, Margaret

12.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

13.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

19.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Ovid

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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 completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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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

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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.

33.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Dick Cavett

35.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

36.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

39.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

40.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

44.

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

Lawana Blackwell

45.

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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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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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne