Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Children

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Ovid

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

Rabbinical Saying

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Robert Orben

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

18.

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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Epictetus

21.

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

22.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

29.

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

Robert Byrne

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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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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

John Gray

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

Jones, Franklin P.