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

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

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

Moses, Robert

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Plomp, John

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

10.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

11.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

12.

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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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

14.

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

15.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

16.

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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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

18.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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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

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

24.

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

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

26.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

28.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

29.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Who, Dr.

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

34.

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

35.

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

36.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robert Orben

39.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

40.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

41.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Dick Cavett

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

45.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

46.

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

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Wilde, Oscar

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