Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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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 completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Plomp, John

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Harrison, Jane

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra