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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

John Gray

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

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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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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Hulbert, Harold

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Who, Dr.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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