Motivational Quotes

Children

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

Montessori, Maria

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Hulbert, Harold

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Mead, Margaret

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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

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

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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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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.

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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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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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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Dogen

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger