Motivational Quotes

Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Sam Levenson

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Bombeck, Erma

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Dick Cavett

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Robert Orben

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