Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Jordan, June

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Morley, Christopher

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.