Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are poor men's riches.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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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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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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Moses, Robert

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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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 poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Daniel Raeburn

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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