Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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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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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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

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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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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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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

30.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

34.

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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

39.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Tauscher, Stacia

45.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

46.

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

49.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

50.

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge