Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Waitley, Denis

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

10.

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

Edwards, Harry

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

14.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

19.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

20.

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

21.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

22.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

23.

It takes three to make a child.

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

24.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

25.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

26.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

27.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

28.

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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

30.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

31.

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

Watts, Isaac

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

38.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

39.

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

Who, Dr.

40.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

41.

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

Groucho Marx

42.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.

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

44.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

45.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

46.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

47.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

48.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

49.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold