Motivational Quotes

Children

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

- Edwards, Harry

Best Quotes about Children

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Moses, Robert

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Robert Orben

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robert Byrne

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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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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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

John J. Plomp

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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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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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Plomp, John

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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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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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Angelou, Maya

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