Motivational Quotes

Children

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Morley, Christopher

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Capp, Al

25.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Sam Levenson

31.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

41.

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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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Phyllis Diller

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

Ruskin, John

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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