Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Lewin, Roger

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

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

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

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

Sam Levenson

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Mead, Margaret

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

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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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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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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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

Hunt, Leigh

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Ovid

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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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 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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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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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 are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Edwards, Harry

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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