Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Best Quotes about Children

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

John Gray

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

Ruskin, John

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

King Edward VIII

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

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

Capp, Al

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

Shakespeare, William

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Proverb, English

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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

Groucho Marx

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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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

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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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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Ball, Lucille

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David