Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Montessori, Maria

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

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Ovid

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Bruce Barton

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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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

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Ruskin, John

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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 need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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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