Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Kraus, Karl

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilmot, John

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Robert Orben

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

Ovid

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

Wilde, Oscar

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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

Plomp, John

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Montessori, Maria

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

20.

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

King Edward VIII

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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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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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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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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Bruce Barton

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Capp, Al

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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

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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander