Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilbur, Ray L.

Best Quotes about Children

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

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

Proverb

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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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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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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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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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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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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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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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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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mary MacCracken

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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

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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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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki