Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John Gray

Best Quotes about Children

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

10.

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

Plomp, John

15.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

27.

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

Mead, Margaret

28.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lewin, Roger

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.