Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Plomp, John

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

John J. Plomp

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Who, Dr.

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

Lewin, Roger

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

30.

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

Edwards, Harry

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Ruskin, John