Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lawana Blackwell

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10.

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

11.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bruce Barton

16.

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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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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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

20.

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

Robert Byrne

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Hunt, Leigh

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

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

30.

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

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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.

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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

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb

35.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

John J. Plomp

38.

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 must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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

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

Montessori, Maria

44.

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

Plomp, John

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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

49.

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki