Motivational Quotes

Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Long, Lazarus

Best Quotes about Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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

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

10.

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

Robert Byrne

11.

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

Peter Ustinov

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

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

Norman Douglas

16.

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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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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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

19.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

20.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

21.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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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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

26.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

27.

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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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Plomp, John

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

33.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

34.

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

William Shakespeare

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

37.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Hunt, Leigh

40.

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

Groucho Marx

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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

42.

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

Robert Orben

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Lewin, Roger

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Never have children, only grand children.