Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

John J. Plomp

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

John Gray

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander