Motivational Quotes

Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Best Quotes about Children

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

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

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

Moses, Robert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Capp, Al

28.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

32.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

35.

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

36.

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

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher