Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

Larkin, Philip

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Robert Orben

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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

15.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

16.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jameson, Anna

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Edwards, Harry

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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.

30.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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

33.

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

Who, Dr.

34.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

36.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

43.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dick Cavett

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

Bible

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