Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

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

Picasso, Pablo

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

King Edward VIII

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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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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Cosby, Bill

15.

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

16.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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

18.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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

28.

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

Baldwin, James

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

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

John Gray

34.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

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

Plomp, John

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

40.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman