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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

2.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

3.

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

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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

5.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Moses, Robert

7.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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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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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

13.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

14.

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

Robert Orben

15.

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

Norman Douglas

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

19.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

23.

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

Fran Lebowitz

24.

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

Edwards, Harry

25.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

26.

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

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

29.

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

Phyllis Diller

30.

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

Nash, Ogden

31.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

36.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

37.

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

38.

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]

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39.

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

40.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Peter Ustinov

42.

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

King Edward VIII

43.

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

44.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

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

Wilmot, John

46.

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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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

48.

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

Moustakas, Clark

49.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

50.

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]

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