Motivational Quotes

Children

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Jameson, Anna

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mead, Margaret

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

19.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

20.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hunt, Leigh

23.

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

Epictetus

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Dick Cavett

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pope, Alexander

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse