Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

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

Robert Orben

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

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

John J. Plomp

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

Moses, Robert

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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

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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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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Nash, Ogden

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Sam Levenson

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

Who, Dr.

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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 might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Shakespeare, William

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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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