Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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

Ruskin, John

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Pope, Alexander

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

20.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

28.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

30.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

31.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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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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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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

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Edwards, Harry

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin