Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Sam Levenson

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

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

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

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

10.

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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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Epictetus

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

Ruskin, John

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

30.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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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 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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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

39.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Norman Douglas

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

Ovid

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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