Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bombeck, Erma

Best Quotes about Children

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Ball, Lucille

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical Saying

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Groucho Marx

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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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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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

William Shakespeare

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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 a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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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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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

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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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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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Ovid

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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Epictetus

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Angelou, Maya

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

FeNelon, Francois