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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Rabbinical Saying

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Capp, Al

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

Mead, Margaret

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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 can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

11.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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 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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Angelou, Maya

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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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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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 suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

31.

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

Edwards, Harry

32.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Peter Ustinov

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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

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Eucharista Ward

47.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John