Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Who, Dr.

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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

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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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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

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moses, Robert

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

Groucho Marx

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

Edwards, Harry

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wilmot, John

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

Peter Ustinov

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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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