Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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

Robert Orben

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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.

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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ovid

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, English

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

Epictetus

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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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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

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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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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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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