Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are poor men's riches.

- Ray, John

Best Quotes about Children

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Waitley, Denis

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

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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 see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Ruskin, John