Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Crane, Monta

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

Wilde, Oscar

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Wilmot, John

10.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

19.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

20.

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

Groucho Marx

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, English

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

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

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

Moustakas, Clark

27.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

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

30.

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

31.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

32.

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

33.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

34.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

35.

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

Robert Orben

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

39.

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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

42.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

43.

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

44.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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.

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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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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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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