Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Children

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

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

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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

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

Epictetus

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

11.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

12.

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

13.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

14.

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

Phyllis Diller

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

17.

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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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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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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

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It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

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

Jones, Franklin P.

24.

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

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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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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

27.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

John J. Plomp

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

30.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Crane, Monta

31.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

32.

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

Rabbinical Saying

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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

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

Ovid

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

Baldwin, James

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

40.

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

Who, Dr.

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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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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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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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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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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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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