Motivational Quotes

Children

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Children

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Capp, Al

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

John Gray

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

Wilmot, John

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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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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Plomp, John

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Moses, Robert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.