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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Curie, Madame Marie

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Sam Levenson

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

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Angelou, Maya

17.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Mead, Margaret

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

24.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Parker, Dorothy

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Edwards, Harry

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

39.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

40.

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

Baldwin, James

41.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin