Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Meyer, Adolph

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Plomp, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

12.

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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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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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

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

29.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

Ball, Lucille

33.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Mary MacCracken

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Groucho Marx

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.