Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Who, Dr.

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

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Morley, Christopher

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Baldwin, James

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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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]

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