Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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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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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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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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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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.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

19.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

25.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

27.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lewin, Roger

30.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

Bruce Barton

40.

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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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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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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