Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Plomp, John

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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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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Phyllis Diller

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Who, Dr.

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

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales