Motivational Quotes

Children

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.

Best Quotes about Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Capp, Al

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Shakespeare, William

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Who, Dr.

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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 planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Groucho Marx

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold