Motivational Quotes

Children

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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

Who, Dr.

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Moses, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Lewin, Roger

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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

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

John J. Plomp

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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.