Motivational Quotes

Children

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Children

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Watts, Isaac

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

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

Groucho Marx

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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 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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Ovid

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

John Gray

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

32.

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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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Nash, Ogden

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.