Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Norman Douglas

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Ball, Lucille

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Ziglar, Zig

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

14.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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

16.

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

Groucho Marx

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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

18.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

22.

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Mead, Margaret

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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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

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

Robert Byrne

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

Nash, Ogden

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

43.

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

King Edward VIII

44.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

45.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra