Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Children

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

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.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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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 begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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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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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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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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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.