Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

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

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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

Angelou, Maya

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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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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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 rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

John J. Plomp

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

Shakespeare, William

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ruskin, 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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

39.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Lawana Blackwell

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

46.

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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.