Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Groucho Marx

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

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

Dogen

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Shakespeare, William

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Capp, Al

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lewin, Roger

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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

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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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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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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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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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