Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Rabbinical Saying

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Robert Orben

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Who, Dr.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Jameson, Anna

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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

Bruce Barton

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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

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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.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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 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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Ruskin, John

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.