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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

10.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

11.

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

Abbott, Lyman

12.

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

Wiesel, Elie

13.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

14.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

15.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

16.

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

Morley, Christopher

17.

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

18.

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

19.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Moses, Robert

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Mary MacCracken

24.

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

Lewin, Roger

25.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Freud, Sigmund

27.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

30.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

31.

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

32.

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

Dick Cavett

33.

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

34.

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

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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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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

37.

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

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

40.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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

42.

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

Ruskin, John

43.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

44.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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.