Motivational Quotes

Children

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

- Rutherford, Samuel

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Daniel Raeburn

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

John J. Plomp

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Peter Ustinov

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

30.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Ovid

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It takes three to make a child.

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

40.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian