Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Edwards, Harry

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Chase, Alexander

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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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 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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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