Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Abbott, Lyman

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Groucho Marx

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Epictetus