Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Johnson, Lady Bird

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Chase, Alexander

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Eliot, George

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

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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 see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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

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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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, English

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.