Motivational Quotes

Children

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Children

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hunt, Leigh

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

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

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Gray, Thomas

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Plomp, John

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Sam Levenson

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

Edwards, Harry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, English

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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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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

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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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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne