Motivational Quotes

Children

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about Children

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Baldwin, James

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ovid

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

21.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Dick Cavett

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

Capp, Al

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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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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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

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Peter Ustinov

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

John J. Plomp

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

Groucho Marx

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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