Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

John J. Plomp

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.

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

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, English

11.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Moses, Robert

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

Hunt, Leigh

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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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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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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