Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Norman Douglas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Bruce Barton

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

Angelou, Maya

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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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 a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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

Groucho Marx

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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 are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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 always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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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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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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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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

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

Plomp, John

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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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