Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Children

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

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

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bruce Barton

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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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

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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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There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Lewin, Roger

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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.

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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

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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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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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

Ball, Lucille

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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

Norman Douglas

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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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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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

King Edward VIII

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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