Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Proverb, English

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Proverb

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

Waitley, Denis

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Lewin, Roger

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.