Motivational Quotes

Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

King Edward VIII

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Groucho Marx

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Capp, Al

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Chase, Alexander

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Mary MacCracken

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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.

Anatole Broyard