Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Robert Orben

Best Quotes about Children

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Ruskin, John

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

10.

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

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Groucho Marx

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

King Edward VIII

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Freud, Sigmund

25.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

28.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

33.

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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

38.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chase, Alexander

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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