Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Children

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Norman Douglas

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Picasso, Pablo

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Moustakas, Clark

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It takes three to make a child.

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

11.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

John J. Plomp

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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

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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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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mead, Margaret

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.