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

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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 child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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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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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Ruskin, John

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

Plomp, John

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Wilbur, Ray L.