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.

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Best Quotes about Children

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Who, Dr.

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

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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

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Moses, Robert

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

Robert Orben

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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