Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Robert Byrne

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

John J. Plomp

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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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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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

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Mead, Margaret

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bible

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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

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

Who, Dr.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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