Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

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

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Peter Ustinov

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

10.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

11.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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

17.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Groucho Marx

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Ovid

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Groucho Marx

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

Plomp, John

41.

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

Proverb, English

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

Chase, Alexander

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

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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