Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Gray, Thomas

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Mary MacCracken

10.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Bruce Barton

13.

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

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

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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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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

18.

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

John J. Plomp

19.

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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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

21.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

23.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

24.

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

Ziglar, Zig

25.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

26.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Rabbinical Saying

30.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

32.

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

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

Ovid

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lewin, Roger

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

40.

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

Picasso, Pablo

41.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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

47.

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

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Johnson, Lady Bird