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 apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Edwards, Harry

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Rabbinical Saying

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

18.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Moses, Robert

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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.

40.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Dyer, Wayne

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