Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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.

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

Moses, Robert

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Capp, Al

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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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

13.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

14.

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

Edwards, Harry

15.

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

16.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

25.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Kraus, Karl

27.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

29.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

It takes three to make a child.

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

33.

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

34.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Crane, Monta

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Bruce Barton

40.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

41.

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.

42.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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

44.

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Gray, Thomas

49.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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