Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Children

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Picasso, Pablo

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.

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

10.

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Moustakas, Clark

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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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.

28.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Robert Byrne

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Ball, Lucille

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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Bruce Barton

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

Lair, Dr. Jess

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Franklin, Benjamin