Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Robert Byrne

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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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 men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Oscar Wilde

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Eliot, George

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Pope, Alexander

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Churchill, Winston

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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