Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

John Gray

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Moses, Robert

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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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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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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Picasso, Pablo

41.

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

Dick Cavett

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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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

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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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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