Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hulbert, Harold

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Epictetus

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

John J. Plomp

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Robert Byrne

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb