Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Proverb, English

10.

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

Moses, Robert

11.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bruce Barton

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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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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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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

31.

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

32.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Angelou, Maya

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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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

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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