Motivational Quotes

Children

A child is fed with milk and praise.

- Lamb, Mary

Best Quotes about Children

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Hunt, Leigh

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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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

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

Plomp, John

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

31.

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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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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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

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

Moses, Robert

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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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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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold