Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Robert Orben

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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

Ovid

10.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

11.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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.

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Waitley, Denis

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Norman Douglas

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

44.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

47.

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

Fran Lebowitz

48.

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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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