Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dogen

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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 the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Crane, Monta

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

Edwards, Harry

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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