Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Children

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Abbott, Lyman

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bruce Barton

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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

Lawana Blackwell

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Peter Ustinov

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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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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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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia