Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Bruce Barton

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Tauscher, Stacia

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

Who, Dr.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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

Angelou, Maya

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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ovid

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Wilbur, Ray L.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Wilde, Oscar