Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

10.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

11.

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

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

13.

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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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

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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

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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

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

25.

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

Norman Douglas

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

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

28.

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

Sam Levenson

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

39.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

40.

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

Moses, Robert

41.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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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

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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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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 best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Hulbert, Harold