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

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

Edwards, Harry

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

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

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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

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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Plomp, John

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

Groucho Marx

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Churchill, Winston

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.