Motivational Quotes

Children

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

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Best Quotes about Children

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

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bruce Barton

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Lair, Dr. Jess

It takes three to make a child.

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

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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

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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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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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

Orwell, George

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Who, Dr.

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

Kraus, Karl

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Dorothy Parker

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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

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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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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.