Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Eliot, George

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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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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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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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Kraus, Karl

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Plomp, John

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Josh Lieb

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Robert Orben

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Dyer, Wayne