Motivational Quotes

Children

What is done to children, they will do to society.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Norman Douglas

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

10.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

11.

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

12.

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

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

Ruskin, John

15.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

16.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

17.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

18.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

19.

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

20.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Sam Levenson

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

26.

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

27.

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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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 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

30.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

31.

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

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

34.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

35.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

John Gray

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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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

40.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

41.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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.

47.

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

Watts, Isaac

49.

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

Jones, Franklin P.