Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

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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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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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

12.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

13.

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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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

15.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

16.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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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.

23.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

24.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

25.

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

Groucho Marx

26.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Torrie, Alfred

28.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

32.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

33.

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

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

35.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Moustakas, Clark

38.

It takes three to make a child.

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

39.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

40.

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

41.

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

42.

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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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

45.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

46.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.