Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Angelou, Maya

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Eliot, George

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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