Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are the keys of paradise.

- Stoddard, Richard Henry

Best Quotes about Children

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Lawana Blackwell

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lewin, Roger

10.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Montessori, Maria

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

20.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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 sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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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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

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, English

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

Plomp, John

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

Mead, Margaret

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?