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.

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Best Quotes about Children

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

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

William Shakespeare

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Daniel Raeburn

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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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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

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

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Proverb, English

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Ovid

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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

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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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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

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

Robert Orben

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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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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