Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

- Dobson, Dr. James C.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

10.

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

11.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

12.

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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

15.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

16.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

17.

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

18.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

19.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

20.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

21.

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 not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

23.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

25.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Peter Ustinov

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

29.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

30.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

39.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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

Diana, Princess of Wales