Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

24.

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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

28.

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

Moses, Robert

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

31.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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 countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Lawana Blackwell