Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

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

Edwards, Harry

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

11.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Capp, Al

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Moustakas, Clark

18.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Angelou, Maya

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

41.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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.

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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