Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Children

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Mary MacCracken

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chase, Alexander

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

14.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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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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

18.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

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

Hunt, Leigh

21.

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

22.

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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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

24.

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

Plomp, John

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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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 are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

30.

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

Hulbert, Harold

31.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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

33.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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

37.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

38.

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.

39.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

40.

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

41.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

42.

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

Morley, Christopher

43.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

45.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Watts, Isaac

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