Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Dogen

11.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

13.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

16.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

18.

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

Bruce Barton

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

21.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

27.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Robert Byrne

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

39.

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 need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

45.

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

Robert Orben

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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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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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