Motivational Quotes

Children

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wilmot, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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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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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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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Kraus, Karl

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Ovid

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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