Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

John Gray

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

Who, Dr.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Bruce Barton

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 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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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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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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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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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

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