Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Ovid

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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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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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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Baldwin, James

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Angelou, Maya

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Robert Orben

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

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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