Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Nash, Ogden

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

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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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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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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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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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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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

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Crane, Monta

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

Eliot, George

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Ruskin, John

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

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Robert Orben

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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

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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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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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