Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Edwards, Harry

Best Quotes about Children

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Moustakas, Clark

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Phyllis Diller

10.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

18.

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

Who, Dr.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Epictetus

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

35.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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 child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William