Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Baldwin, James

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

11.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

12.

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

Rabbinical Saying

13.

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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

18.

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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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

21.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

22.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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

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

25.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

29.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

30.

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

Gray, Thomas

33.

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

John J. Plomp

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Mead, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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