Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

Phyllis Diller

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

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Montessori, Maria

10.

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

11.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Robert Orben

16.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

18.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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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

20.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

21.

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

Watts, Isaac

22.

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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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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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Norman Douglas

27.

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

28.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bruce Barton

33.

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

Mead, Margaret

35.

That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

36.

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

Hunt, Leigh

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

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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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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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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

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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

47.

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Chase, Alexander

49.

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

Baldwin, James