Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Wilde, Oscar

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Baldwin, James

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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

Mary MacCracken

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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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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

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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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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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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Peter Ustinov

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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 can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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 in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Cox, Marcelene

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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

41.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De