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

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Groucho Marx

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wilde, Oscar

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Proverb, English

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

John Gray

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Angelou, Maya

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Ovid

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Rabbinical Saying