Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- John Gray

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

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

Ball, Lucille

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Kraus, Karl

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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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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 living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Mary MacCracken

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Robert Orben

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

50.

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