Motivational Quotes

Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

- Fyfe, David

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Montessori, Maria

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

10.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

11.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

12.

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 is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

20.

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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

22.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

25.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

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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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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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

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

40.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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.