Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are poor men's riches.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Children

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

10.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

15.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Epictetus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

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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

25.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lewin, Roger

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

32.

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

Peter Ustinov

33.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

41.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ovid

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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

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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