Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

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

Mead, Margaret

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dogen

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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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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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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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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Ruskin, John

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

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Plomp, John

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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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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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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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bruce Barton

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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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