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

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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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

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

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

Dogen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bruce Barton

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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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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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

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

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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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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

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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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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ovid

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

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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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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

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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

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John J. Plomp

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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Dick Cavett

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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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