Motivational Quotes

Children

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

Best Quotes about Children

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

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

Anyone who uses the phrase'easy as taking candy from a baby'has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

10.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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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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

15.

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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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

17.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilbur, Ray L.

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It takes three to make a child.

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

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

Jameson, Anna

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

25.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

28.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Moustakas, Clark

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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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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Nash, Ogden

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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Gray, Thomas

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

Phyllis Diller

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

King Edward VIII

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

50.

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