Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Children

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

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

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

Angelou, Maya

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

10.

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

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

12.

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

13.

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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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

20.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

21.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

22.

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

Bruce Barton

23.

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

Rabbinical Saying

24.

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

25.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

26.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

32.

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

Edwards, Harry

33.

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

34.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

35.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

36.

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

John Gray

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

38.

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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

40.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

Capp, Al

42.

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

43.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

44.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

45.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

46.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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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

50.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English