Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Children

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Edwards, Harry

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Ovid

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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

Robert Orben

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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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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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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

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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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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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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria