Motivational Quotes

Children

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Long, Lazarus

Best Quotes about Children

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Lewin, Roger

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

William Shakespeare

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.