Motivational Quotes

Children

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

- Cosby, Bill

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

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.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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

King Edward VIII

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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

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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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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

19.

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

Robert Orben

20.

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

Mead, Margaret

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

24.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

25.

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

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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

27.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ruskin, John

32.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

33.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

36.

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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

38.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

45.

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

46.

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

Bruce Barton

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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