Motivational Quotes

Children

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

- Keillor, Garrison

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

10.

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

John J. Plomp

11.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

12.

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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Wilmot, John

17.

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

Robert Orben

18.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

19.

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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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

24.

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

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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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

30.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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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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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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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Norman Douglas

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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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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

39.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

41.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

42.

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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.