Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Watts, Isaac

Best Quotes about Children

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

10.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

11.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

12.

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

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

15.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

17.

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

Phyllis Diller

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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

19.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

20.

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

21.

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

Ball, Lucille

22.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

24.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

25.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

26.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

27.

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

Groucho Marx

28.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

29.

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Peter Ustinov

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

33.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

34.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Kraus, Karl

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

40.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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

44.

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

Plomp, John

45.

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

46.

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

Angelou, Maya

47.

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

Ovid

48.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John