Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Epictetus

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Eliot, George

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

Who, Dr.

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 countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Capp, Al

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

Nash, Ogden

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Moses, Robert

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

35.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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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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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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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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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children always turn to the light.