Motivational Quotes

Children

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

- Gray, Thomas

Best Quotes about Children

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

John Gray

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

Dick Cavett

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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.

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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

12.

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

Ruskin, John

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

14.

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

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

17.

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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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

20.

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

Proverb, English

21.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

24.

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

25.

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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

27.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

34.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

35.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

William Shakespeare

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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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

40.

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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

45.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David