Motivational Quotes

Children

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

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

John Gray

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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 seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

13.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

14.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

15.

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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, Christopher

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

21.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

24.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

29.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

32.

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

Hulbert, Harold

33.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

43.

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch