Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

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.

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

Phyllis Diller

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Robert Orben

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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

Morley, Christopher

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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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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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