Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Groucho Marx

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Capp, Al

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Who, Dr.

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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 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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Robert Orben

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Eliot, George

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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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales