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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Kraus, Karl

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

John Gray

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Abbott, Lyman

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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