Motivational Quotes

Children

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

- Lewin, Roger

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mary MacCracken

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Abbott, Lyman

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

11.

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 is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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

23.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

28.

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

Peter Ustinov

29.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

30.

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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Montessori, Maria

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

42.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children are poor men's riches.

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

Edwards, Harry

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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