Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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.

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

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

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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

Peter Ustinov

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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 change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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 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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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