Motivational Quotes

Children

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Children

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

Bruce Barton

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

John Gray

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Ovid

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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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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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Baldwin, James

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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 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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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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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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Peter Ustinov

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewin, Roger

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Ruskin, John

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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