Motivational Quotes

Children

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Jones, Franklin P.

11.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

18.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

30.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Norman Douglas

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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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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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

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Capp, Al

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

Dogen