Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Moses, Robert

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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

11.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

John J. Plomp

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

38.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

39.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Groucho Marx

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mead, Margaret

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