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

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

Waitley, Denis

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Plomp, John

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

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

12.

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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

Robert Orben

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

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

John J. Plomp

20.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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.

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

Chase, Alexander

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

31.

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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

41.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Robert Orben

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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