Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

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

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

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

11.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

12.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Robert Byrne

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, English

28.

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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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

35.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Sam Levenson

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Morley, Christopher

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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It takes three to make a child.

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