Motivational Quotes

Children

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Robert Orben

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Shakespeare, William

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Morley, Christopher

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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

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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

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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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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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

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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

Proverb, English

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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 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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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich