Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard 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.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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 seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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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

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

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.

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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

Moses, Robert

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Dick Cavett

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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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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

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

Picasso, Pablo