Motivational Quotes

Children

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

Hulbert, Harold

10.

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

Robert Byrne

11.

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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Phyllis Diller

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

18.

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

Norman Douglas

19.

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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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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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Jameson, Anna

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

31.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Moses, Robert

34.

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

Plomp, John

35.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Shakespeare, William

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

43.

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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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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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

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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

47.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.