Motivational Quotes

Children

Children always turn to the light.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Jones, Franklin P.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Montessori, Maria

10.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

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

12.

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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Kraus, Karl

15.

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

Baldwin, James

16.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

17.

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.

18.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

19.

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

Mead, Margaret

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

30.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

33.

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

Crane, Monta

34.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

35.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

37.

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

38.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

39.

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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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

43.

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

Gray, Thomas

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

48.

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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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