Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Angelou, Maya

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

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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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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Robert Orben

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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