Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Children

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb, English

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Norman Douglas

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

10.

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

Jameson, Anna

11.

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

12.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

13.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

15.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

16.

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

Mead, Margaret

17.

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 is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

19.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

20.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dogen

22.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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

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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

25.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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.

27.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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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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.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Ruskin, John

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

44.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx