Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

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

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

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

Sam Levenson

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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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

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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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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robert Orben

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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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 begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lewin, Roger

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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Klee, Paul

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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell