Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

17.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

18.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

Jameson, Anna

20.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

25.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

26.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

29.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

30.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

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

32.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

33.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

34.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

35.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

37.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

38.

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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

40.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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