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

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

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

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

Who, Dr.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

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 our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Edwards, Harry

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Moses, Robert

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The child is the father of the man.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Epictetus

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

Sam Levenson

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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

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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

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph