Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Best Quotes about Children

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

Phyllis Diller

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Jameson, Anna

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Who, Dr.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Bruce Barton

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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