Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Freud, Sigmund

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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 are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Norman Douglas

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

Who, Dr.

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Dogen

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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 child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann