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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gray, Thomas

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Hunt, Leigh

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.

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Who, Dr.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Robert Byrne

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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 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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Edwards, Harry

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Robert Orben

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

Capp, Al

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.