Motivational Quotes

Children

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

Freud, Sigmund

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Peter Ustinov

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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

11.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

15.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

20.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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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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

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Robert Byrne

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

40.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

43.

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

Plomp, John

44.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

47.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

48.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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