Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Edwards, Harry

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Groucho Marx

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

10.

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

11.

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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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Moses, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

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

29.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jones, Franklin P.

33.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Abbott, Lyman

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pope, Alexander

49.

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