Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

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

Plomp, John

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

King Edward VIII

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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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

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph