Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Montessori, Maria

Best Quotes about Children

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

Gray, Thomas

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Watts, Isaac

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

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

Norman Douglas

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Morley, Christopher

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Chase, Alexander

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

John J. Plomp

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Gray

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Robert Byrne

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

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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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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

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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