Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Children

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

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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.

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mary MacCracken

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

15.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

16.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

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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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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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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Moses, Robert

25.

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

Peter Ustinov

26.

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

King Edward VIII

28.

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

Ovid

29.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

30.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

31.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

32.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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

34.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Robert Orben

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Bruce Barton

41.

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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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Nash, Ogden

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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

John J. Plomp