Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Capp, Al

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Proverb, English

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Pope, Alexander

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

10.

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

Lewin, Roger

11.

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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

13.

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

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Edwards, Harry

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

22.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

23.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

25.

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

Moustakas, Clark

26.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

27.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

40.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

42.

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

Wilmot, John

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Kraus, Karl