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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Mead, Margaret

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Jameson, Anna

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

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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 are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Peter Ustinov

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fran Lebowitz