Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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.

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

Wilmot, John

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

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

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

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

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Curie, Madame Marie

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Plomp, John

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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

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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

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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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

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Proverb, English

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Bombeck, Erma

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I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

Josh Lieb

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bruce Barton

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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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