Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Groucho Marx

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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

12.

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

Dick Cavett

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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.

14.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

26.

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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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

29.

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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

Proverb

37.

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

Mary MacCracken

38.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Chase, Alexander

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Jameson, Anna

49.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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