Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Groucho Marx

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Chase, Alexander

10.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

12.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

15.

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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

18.

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

Proverb

19.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

23.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

24.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Montessori, Maria

27.

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

John J. Plomp

29.

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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

31.

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

32.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

34.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

35.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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

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

Bruce Barton

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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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

43.

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

46.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

47.

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

Moses, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell