Motivational Quotes

Children

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

William Shakespeare

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Mead, Margaret

19.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

41.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mary MacCracken

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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

48.

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children are all foreigners.