Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Children

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Chase, Alexander

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

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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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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Baldwin, James

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

John Gray

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Morley, Christopher

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Who, Dr.

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.