Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Robert Byrne

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Moustakas, Clark

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

Dorothy Parker

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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

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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

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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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Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

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

Ovid

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

28.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Groucho Marx

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

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

Wilmot, John

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

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

Chase, Alexander

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde