Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilde, Oscar

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Norman Douglas

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

15.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

18.

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

Bruce Barton

19.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

27.

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

Hunt, Leigh

30.

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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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

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

Abbott, Lyman

33.

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

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

John J. Plomp

35.

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

36.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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