Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Who, Dr.

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Norman Douglas

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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

10.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

King Edward VIII

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Bruce Barton

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jameson, Anna

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Davis, Bette

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Mary MacCracken