Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ovid

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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 wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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