Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Chase, Alexander

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

11.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

12.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

14.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Watts, Isaac

17.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Ovid

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

22.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

25.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

50.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De