Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Peter Ustinov

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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 are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 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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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

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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 reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Josh Lieb

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Robert Orben

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Norman Douglas

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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