Motivational Quotes

Children

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Children

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

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Freud, Sigmund

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

10.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

11.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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

Groucho Marx

13.

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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

19.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

20.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

21.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

26.

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

27.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

29.

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

Epictetus

30.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

35.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

John Gray

37.

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

44.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Ovid

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal