Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Epictetus

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

William Shakespeare

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Shakespeare, William

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

17.

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

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Robert Orben

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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

32.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

33.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Ruskin, John

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Lewin, Roger

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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