Motivational Quotes

Children

Children need models rather than critics.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Children

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Eliot, George

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

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

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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 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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Plomp, John

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Who, Dr.

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lawana Blackwell

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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