Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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 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

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

Ovid

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Hunt, Leigh

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Plomp, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Phyllis Diller

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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 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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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 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.