Motivational Quotes

Children

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

Best Quotes about Children

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

Jones, Franklin P.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Proverb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Bruce Barton

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

10.

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

Montessori, Maria

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

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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 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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Lewin, Roger

24.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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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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

30.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

31.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

32.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

33.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

39.

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

40.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are the keys of paradise.