Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Hunt, Leigh

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Ovid

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wilmot, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Ball, Lucille

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

11.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

12.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

Groucho Marx

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Proverb

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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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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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.