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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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

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

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

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

11.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ball, Lucille

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

25.

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Hulbert, Harold

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

30.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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]

Bible

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

34.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

35.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

36.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

37.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

43.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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