Motivational Quotes

Children

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Proverb, English

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Norman Douglas

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

Plomp, John

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

Robert Byrne

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ball, Lucille

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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 wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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.

39.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Capp, Al

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

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

Rabbinical Saying