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

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Jameson, Anna

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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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

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Robert Orben

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bruce Barton

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

Peter Ustinov

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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.