Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dogen

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

Moses, Robert

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

10.

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.

11.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

15.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

17.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Dick Cavett

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

25.

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

Groucho Marx

26.

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

Rabbinical Saying

27.

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

28.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

29.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

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

31.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

King Edward VIII

36.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

39.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

40.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

41.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

43.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

44.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Oscar Wilde

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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

48.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

49.

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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.