Motivational Quotes

Children

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oscar Wilde

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gray, Thomas

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Robert Orben

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

Proverb, English

11.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

20.

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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Shakespeare, William

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

32.

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

33.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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Ruskin, John

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

William Shakespeare

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Plomp, John

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

Who, Dr.

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

King Edward VIII