Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Proverb, English

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Proverb

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Shakespeare, William

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Ruskin, John

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ovid

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

Hunt, Leigh

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Moses, Robert

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

28.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Robert Byrne

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Capp, Al

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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

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

Montessori, Maria

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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