Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

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

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Norman Douglas

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.

Who, Dr.

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

Wiesel, Elie

11.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Hulbert, Harold

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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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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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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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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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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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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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

Moses, Robert

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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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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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

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

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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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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Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett