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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Moustakas, Clark

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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 child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Shakespeare, William

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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.

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Edwards, Harry

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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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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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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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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