Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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

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

Peter Ustinov

10.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

11.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

12.

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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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

15.

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

Bruce Barton

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

21.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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 places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

37.

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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Children are all foreigners.