Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilbur, Ray L.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Picasso, Pablo

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bruce Barton

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

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Groucho Marx

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Peter Ustinov

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Epictetus

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

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Capp, Al

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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