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

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Plomp, John

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

King Edward VIII

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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The child is the father of the man.