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

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Moses, Robert

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

Robert Orben

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

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Wilde, Oscar

It takes three to make a child.

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

10.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

11.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

12.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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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 aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hunt, Leigh

22.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Groucho Marx

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lawana Blackwell