Motivational Quotes

Children

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Children

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dick Cavett

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

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

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

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

Robert Orben

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

Norman Douglas

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Groucho Marx

15.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Dogen

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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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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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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

24.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

25.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

26.

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

27.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

28.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

33.

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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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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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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

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Proverb, English

46.

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

Robert Byrne

47.

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.

48.

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

Eliot, George

49.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo