Motivational Quotes

Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Moses, Robert

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.