Motivational Quotes

Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Long, Lazarus

Best Quotes about Children

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

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

Ovid

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Ball, Lucille

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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

Ziglar, Zig

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Bruce Barton

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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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 have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Lewin, Roger

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Where children are, there is the golden age.