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

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

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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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