Motivational Quotes

Children

Be gentle with the young.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Children

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

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Who, Dr.

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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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 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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Curie, Madame Marie