Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Capp, Al

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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 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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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Norman Douglas

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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.

33.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Crane, Monta

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Dick Cavett

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman