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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moses, Robert

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

10.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

11.

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

Rabbinical Saying

12.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

18.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

19.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

22.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Edwards, Harry

27.

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

Oscar Wilde

28.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

29.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

30.

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

Kraus, Karl

31.

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

32.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

33.

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

Plomp, John

34.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

35.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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 see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

John Gray

40.

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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

Groucho Marx

43.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

44.

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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Proverb

48.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

49.

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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse