Motivational Quotes

Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Epictetus

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

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

Moses, Robert

13.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

Chase, Alexander

19.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

John J. Plomp

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

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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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

28.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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

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

Norman Douglas

32.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

33.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

34.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

35.

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

36.

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

37.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fran Lebowitz

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Peter Ustinov

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

43.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Plomp, John

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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

47.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

48.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

49.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.