Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Angelou, Maya

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Baldwin, James

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

11.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Ovid

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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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

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Groucho Marx

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

45.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.