Motivational Quotes

Children

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Bible

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

Moses, Robert

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

11.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Bruce Barton

13.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Plomp, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

40.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Ovid

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle