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

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

Capp, Al

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

John Gray

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

Dorothy Parker

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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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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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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 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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Proverb, English

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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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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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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 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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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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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Hunt, Leigh

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Chase, Alexander

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

John J. Plomp

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Peter Ustinov

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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