Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

Shakespeare, William

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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

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

John Gray

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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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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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

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Dick Cavett

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

Robert Orben

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ovid

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, English

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Eliot, George