Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

10.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

14.

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

Dick Cavett

15.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

16.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

17.

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

Abbott, Lyman

18.

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

19.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

20.

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

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

22.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Montessori, Maria

24.

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

Ball, Lucille

25.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

28.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

30.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

31.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

34.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

Norman Douglas

36.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

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

Proverb, English

39.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

40.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

42.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

43.

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

Rabbinical Saying

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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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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

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

48.

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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki