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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Robert Orben

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Robert Byrne

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Watts, Isaac

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ruskin, John

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Fran Lebowitz