Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dick Cavett

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

Hulbert, Harold

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

10.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

13.

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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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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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Rabbinical Saying

18.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

19.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

20.

It takes three to make a child.

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

21.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

22.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

28.

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

30.

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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

35.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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 completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

45.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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