Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Mary MacCracken

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 takes three to make a child.

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

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

15.

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

Edwards, Harry

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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

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

25.

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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

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

29.

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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

32.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moses, Robert

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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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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

38.

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Hulbert, Harold

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lawana Blackwell

43.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.