Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Capp, Al

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Epictetus

13.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Who, Dr.

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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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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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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

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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

39.

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

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Franklin, Benjamin