Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lewin, Roger

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

10.

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

11.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

19.

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

Robert Orben

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Groucho Marx

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Edwards, Harry

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Epictetus

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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.

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Curie, Madame Marie