Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Ball, Lucille

Best Quotes about Children

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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.

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

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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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

11.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

12.

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Norman Douglas

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

Hulbert, Harold

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

20.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Chase, Alexander

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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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 also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Klee, Paul

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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

27.

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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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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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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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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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

33.

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

King Edward VIII

34.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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

Bruce Barton

40.

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

Edwards, Harry

41.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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