Motivational Quotes

Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Children

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Moses, Robert

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

10.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

11.

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

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

14.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

15.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

20.

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

Peter Ustinov

21.

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

Edwards, Harry

22.

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 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

24.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

25.

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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

28.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

John J. Plomp

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Phyllis Diller

37.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

39.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Crane, Monta

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas