Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

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

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Epictetus

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Angelou, Maya

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Who, Dr.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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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 society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Sam Levenson

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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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wilmot, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Moses, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Franklin, Benjamin