Motivational Quotes

Children

Adults are obsolete children.

- Seuss, Dr.

Best Quotes about Children

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Waitley, Denis

A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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

King Edward VIII

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hulbert, Harold

10.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

11.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

12.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

John Gray

19.

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

20.

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

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

Baldwin, James

23.

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

John J. Plomp

24.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Bruce Barton

33.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

34.

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

Ball, Lucille

35.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Capp, Al

37.

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

38.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

39.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

40.

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

Picasso, Pablo

41.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

42.

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

43.

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

Robert Byrne

44.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

45.

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

Chase, Alexander

46.

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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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

48.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Freud, Sigmund

50.

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

Epictetus