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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Groucho Marx

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Moses, Robert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ball, Lucille

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