Motivational Quotes

Children

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Children

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

Moses, Robert

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

Edwards, Harry

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

26.

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

John J. Plomp

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jameson, Anna

29.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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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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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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

Moustakas, Clark

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal