Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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

Plomp, John

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Ovid

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

Jameson, Anna

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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

Chase, Alexander

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

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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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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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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Moses, Robert

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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

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

Phyllis Diller

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

John J. Plomp

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

Capp, Al

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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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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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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

30.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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

Moustakas, Clark

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

34.

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

Robert Orben

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

King Edward VIII

36.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Freud, Sigmund

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Eliot, George

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

Norman Douglas

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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 should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

43.

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

Lewin, Roger

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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 use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

46.

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

John Gray

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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

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.