Motivational Quotes

Children

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Children

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

Klee, Paul

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

Mary MacCracken

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

10.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

11.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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

Angelou, Maya

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Robert Orben

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Mead, Margaret

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.