Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

John Gray

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Dick Cavett

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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

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

Lewin, Roger

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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