Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Tauscher, Stacia

Best Quotes about Children

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

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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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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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

25.

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

26.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

27.

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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

Who, Dr.

30.

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

Dorothy Parker

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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

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

King Edward VIII

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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

46.

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

Ball, Lucille

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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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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.