Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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.

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

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

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Moustakas, Clark

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Who, Dr.

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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

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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

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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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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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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Robert Orben

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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 miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

34.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

39.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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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's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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