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

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

Robert Orben

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bruce Barton

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

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Robert Orben

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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.

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley