Motivational Quotes

Children

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

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

Edwards, Harry

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

John Gray

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

Groucho Marx

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

Robert Orben

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Robert Byrne

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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 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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, English

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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Groucho Marx

28.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

43.

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

John J. Plomp

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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.