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

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Norman Douglas

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

10.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Groucho Marx

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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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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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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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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