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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

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

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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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

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Robert Orben

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

William Shakespeare

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Chase, Alexander

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Crane, Monta

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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