Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Proverb, English

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

Franklin, Benjamin

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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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

11.

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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

13.

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

John Gray

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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

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

18.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

19.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

21.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

22.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

23.

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

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

Morley, Christopher

27.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

30.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

31.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

32.

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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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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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

35.

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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

37.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

40.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

43.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

44.

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

Daniel Raeburn

45.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

46.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

47.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

48.

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

Fran Lebowitz

49.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales