Motivational Quotes

Children

A child miseducated is a child lost.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dyer, Wayne

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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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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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Dorothy Parker

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Ovid

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

Moses, Robert

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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 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 apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Who, Dr.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

34.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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 are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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It takes three to make a child.

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

38.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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