Motivational Quotes

Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Robert Orben

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

Lewin, Roger

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

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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.

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

14.

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

15.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Bombeck, Erma

18.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

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

Chase, Alexander

20.

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

John J. Plomp

21.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

23.

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

24.

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

Dick Cavett

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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

29.

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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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

31.

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

32.

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

Robert Orben

33.

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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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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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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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.