Motivational Quotes

Children

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Children

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

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Freud, Sigmund

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

10.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Ball, Lucille

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

14.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

18.

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

Plomp, John

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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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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Moses, Robert

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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

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Crane, Monta

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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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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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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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Key, Ellen

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Nash, Ogden

45.

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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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Children always turn to the light.