Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Children

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

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

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

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

Wilmot, John

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Epictetus

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Robert Byrne

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

Sam Levenson