Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Mary MacCracken

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

10.

It takes three to make a child.

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

11.

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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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

King Edward VIII

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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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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 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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Bruce Barton

25.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

27.

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

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

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

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

Capp, Al

31.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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.

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

35.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Ball, Lucille

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

40.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara