Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Dogen

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

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

Ovid

10.

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

Wiesel, Elie

11.

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 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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Dick Cavett

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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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

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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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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

45.

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

Proverb

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

Moses, Robert

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hunt, Leigh