Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Morley, Christopher

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edwards, Harry

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Moses, Robert

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

Crane, Monta

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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

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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

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

Who, Dr.

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Plomp, John

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.