Motivational Quotes

Children

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

John Gray

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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.

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

King Edward VIII

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ruskin, John

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

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

Capp, Al

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Who, Dr.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, 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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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 change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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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