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

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Jameson, Anna

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Shakespeare, William

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lewin, Roger

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold