Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Chase, Alexander

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

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

Montessori, Maria

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Jameson, Anna

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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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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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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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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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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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

Dick Cavett

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb

25.

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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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bruce Barton

32.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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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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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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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Meynell, Alice

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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 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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Ovid

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.