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

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

William Shakespeare

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lawana Blackwell

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ruskin, John

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

John Gray

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Bruce Barton

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Baldwin, James

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Who, Dr.

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

Hunt, Leigh

30.

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

Proverb

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Ovid

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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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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!