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

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

Wilde, Oscar

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

10.

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

Groucho Marx

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

12.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Jameson, Anna

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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

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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

19.

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

Moses, Robert

20.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Gray, Thomas

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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 given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

29.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert 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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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 have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Who, Dr.

43.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Ball, Lucille

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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