Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Mead, Margaret

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Dorothy Parker

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bruce Barton

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Ovid

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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