Motivational Quotes

Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Gray, Thomas

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

10.

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

Fran Lebowitz

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

15.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

16.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

19.

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

20.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

21.

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

27.

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

John J. Plomp

28.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

29.

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

30.

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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

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 completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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

Robert Orben

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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

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Wilmot, John

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

Ovid

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Capp, Al

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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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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