Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Phyllis Diller

Best Quotes about Children

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

Franklin, Benjamin

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

12.

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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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

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

Sam Levenson

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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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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

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

22.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

24.

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.

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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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

27.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

28.

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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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

30.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

31.

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

32.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Capp, Al

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

44.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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It takes three to make a child.

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