Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Montessori, Maria

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Capp, Al

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

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

Bruce Barton

11.

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

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Morley, Christopher

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jameson, Anna

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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 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

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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.

Vaughan, Bill

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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

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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