Motivational Quotes

Children

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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Best Quotes about Children

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Waitley, Denis

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

10.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Robert Orben

15.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

19.

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

Norman Douglas

20.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

22.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Wilmot, John

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Robert Orben

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

46.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

47.

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold