Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Who, Dr.

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

Oscar Wilde

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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

Lewin, Roger

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Chase, Alexander

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Groucho Marx

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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