Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Children

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

Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

Kraus, Karl

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

11.

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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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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

Bible

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Peter Ustinov

18.

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

Fran Lebowitz

19.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

20.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

22.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

24.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

Chase, Alexander

28.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

29.

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

30.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

34.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

35.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

40.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

44.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

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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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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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 are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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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.