Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Children

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

Plomp, John

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Freud, Sigmund

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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

John J. Plomp

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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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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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

William Shakespeare

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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