Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, English

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

11.

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

12.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

13.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

19.

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

John J. Plomp

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

25.

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

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

Lewin, Roger

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Hunt, Leigh

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

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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

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

Epictetus

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ovid

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Churchill, Winston

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

50.

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