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

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

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

Robert Byrne

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Groucho Marx

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

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

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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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

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

Jameson, Anna

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

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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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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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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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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

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Peter Ustinov

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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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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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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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 are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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

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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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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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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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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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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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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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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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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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