Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Moses, Robert

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Pope, Alexander

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Plomp, John

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Norman Douglas

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Groucho Marx

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

Bruce Barton

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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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