Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

William Shakespeare

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

I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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.

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

10.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

11.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

12.

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

Hulbert, Harold

13.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

14.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Robert Orben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, Christopher

21.

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

John Gray

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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 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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

32.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Kraus, Karl

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Jameson, Anna

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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