Motivational Quotes

Children

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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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

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

Moses, Robert

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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 few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Robert Byrne

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette