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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Proverb, English

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

12.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

John J. Plomp

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Who, Dr.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Dick Cavett

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya