Motivational Quotes

Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Children

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

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

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 takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rabbinical Saying

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Bruce Barton

12.

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

Ovid

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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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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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

18.

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

Hunt, Leigh

19.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

20.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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

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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.

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

27.

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

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

Robert Orben

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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

30.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

31.

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

Ball, Lucille

32.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

33.

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

Robert Orben

34.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

35.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

36.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

37.

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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

40.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Epictetus

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

John Gray

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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.

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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