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

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

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

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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

Groucho Marx

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

Groucho Marx

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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 potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Bruce Barton

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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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It takes three to make a child.

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

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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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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 have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Angelou, Maya

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Lewin, Roger

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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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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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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gray, Thomas

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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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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Buck, Pearl S.