Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nash, Ogden

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lewin, Roger

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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 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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Ovid

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Groucho Marx

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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

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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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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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

40.

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

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dick Cavett

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich