Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Wilmot, John

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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.

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

Ovid

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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.

Cosby, Bill

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Phyllis Diller

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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

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

King Edward VIII

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Groucho Marx

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya