Motivational Quotes

Children

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

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

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Groucho Marx

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, English

10.

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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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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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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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

22.

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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Robert Byrne

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lawana Blackwell

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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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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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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

Nash, Ogden

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

King Edward VIII