Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Oscar Wilde

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

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

10.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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 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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Bruce Barton

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Capp, Al

26.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

29.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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

Robert Orben

32.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

38.

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

39.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

40.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

45.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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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.