Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Children

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

Dyer, Wayne

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Crane, Monta

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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

King Edward VIII

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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

Robert Byrne

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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

Shakespeare, William

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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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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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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, English

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

Lewin, Roger

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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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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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Norman Douglas

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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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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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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