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

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

Dick Cavett

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Jones, Franklin P.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Moses, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bruce Barton

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Robert Byrne

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Hulbert, Harold

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

King Edward VIII

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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

40.

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

Proverb

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson