Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Daniel Raeburn

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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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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

17.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Epictetus

24.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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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

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Jameson, Anna

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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.

34.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Morley, Christopher

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Robert Orben

42.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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