Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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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

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The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robert Byrne

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Ovid

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Dick Cavett

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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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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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 and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Hulbert, Harold

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Adults are obsolete children.