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

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

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

Ball, Lucille

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Picasso, Pablo

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

14.

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

15.

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

16.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

18.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

19.

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

20.

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

Sam Levenson

21.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

22.

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

Rabbinical Saying

23.

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

24.

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

25.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

30.

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

Dick Cavett

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

33.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

34.

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

Moses, Robert

35.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

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

39.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

40.

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

43.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

45.

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

Plomp, John

46.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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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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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