Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Bruce Barton

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

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

Daniel Raeburn

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

King Edward VIII

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

Pope, Alexander

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

John J. Plomp

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

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Moses, Robert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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]