Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Hulbert, Harold

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

William Shakespeare

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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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 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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Ovid

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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