Motivational Quotes

Children

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

11.

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

Who, Dr.

12.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

13.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

18.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

19.

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

20.

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

Morley, Christopher

21.

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

22.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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 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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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

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

31.

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

Groucho Marx

32.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dick Cavett

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Epictetus

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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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