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

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

Josh Lieb

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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 limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Jameson, Anna

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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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

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

John J. Plomp

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

Morley, Christopher

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 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