Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Who, Dr.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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

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

Epictetus

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Robert Orben

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

22.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Edwards, Harry

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

27.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plomp, John

30.

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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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robert Byrne

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

Parker, Dorothy

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

John Gray