Motivational Quotes

Children

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Children

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

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Crane, Monta

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, English

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

11.

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

12.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

It takes three to make a child.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Mary MacCracken

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

19.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

24.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

29.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Chase, Alexander

34.

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

35.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Parker, Dorothy

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

38.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

39.

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

Kraus, Karl

40.

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

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Norman Douglas

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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

49.

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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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