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

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

Ovid

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

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Rabbinical Saying

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Capp, Al

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

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

Phyllis Diller

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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

11.

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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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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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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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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

30.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

31.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

34.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

44.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Hunt, Leigh

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