Motivational Quotes

Children

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Children

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

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Rabbinical Saying

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

Crane, Monta

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

Churchill, Winston

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bruce Barton

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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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

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

Robert Orben

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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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