Motivational Quotes

Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

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

10.

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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

William Shakespeare

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

Ball, Lucille

20.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

Edwards, Harry

27.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

28.

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

30.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

33.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Hunt, Leigh

38.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

John J. Plomp

40.

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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

47.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

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

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta