Motivational Quotes

Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Long, Lazarus

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mead, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

10.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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 rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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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 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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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 are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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.

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Wilde, Oscar

37.

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

Morley, Christopher

38.

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

Groucho Marx

39.

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

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

42.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

John Gray