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

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

Norman Douglas

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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 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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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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 dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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