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

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.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Dick Cavett

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

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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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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Picasso, Pablo

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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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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

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

John J. Plomp

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne