Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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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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

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

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

Robert Orben

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

23.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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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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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Groucho Marx

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bombeck, Erma

32.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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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