Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Children

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

Who, Dr.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Peter Ustinov

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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 suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Edwards, Harry

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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]

Bible

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar