Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, English

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

31.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Hunt, Leigh

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.