Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Norman Douglas

Best Quotes about Children

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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

Wilde, Oscar

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

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

22.

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

Plomp, John

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Phyllis Diller

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

45.

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

Robert Byrne

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

Bible

49.

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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus