Motivational Quotes

Children

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

- Hazzard, Shirley

Best Quotes about Children

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Chase, Alexander

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.

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

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

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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 are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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

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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

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ruskin, John

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Angelou, Maya

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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.

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Sam Levenson

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Robert Orben

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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