Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Crane, Monta

Best Quotes about Children

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Robert Orben

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Norman Douglas

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ovid

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Eliot, George

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Ruskin, John

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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

43.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dick Cavett

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