Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Hunt, Leigh

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.

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

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

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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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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ovid

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Ball, Lucille

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bruce Barton

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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