Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lair, Dr. Jess

Best Quotes about Children

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

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

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

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

Sam Levenson

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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

11.

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

Bruce Barton

12.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Who, Dr.

15.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Plomp, John

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

King Edward VIII

18.

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

Groucho Marx

19.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

20.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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.

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

Jameson, Anna

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

30.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

31.

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

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Lewin, Roger

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

47.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred