Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Moses, Robert

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Wilmot, John

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Ovid

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

Kraus, Karl

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Eliot, George

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Capp, Al

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

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Edwards, Harry

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur