Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Daniel Raeburn

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Oscar Wilde

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Mead, Margaret

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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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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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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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

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