Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Capp, Al

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

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.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Bruce Barton

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Robert Byrne

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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