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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Sam Levenson

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

Lewin, Roger

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

21.

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Plomp, John

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

32.

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

Who, Dr.

33.

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

Groucho Marx

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

John J. Plomp

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Ruskin, John

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