Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Hulbert, Harold

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

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

Bruce Barton

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wilmot, John

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Capp, Al

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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 are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plomp, John

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

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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Morley, Christopher

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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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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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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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