Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Plomp, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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.

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

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

Robert Orben

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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