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

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

Mead, Margaret

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Capp, Al

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

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

Phyllis Diller

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Morley, Christopher

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Edwards, Harry

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

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Baldwin, James

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Norman Douglas

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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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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