Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Crane, Monta

Best Quotes about Children

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.

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

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

Moustakas, Clark

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

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

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Wiesel, Elie

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

10.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

12.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

13.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

16.

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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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

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

Plomp, John

20.

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.

21.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

22.

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

Who, Dr.

23.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

King Edward VIII

25.

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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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

27.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

Hope, Bob

28.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

35.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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 child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

40.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Moses, Robert

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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

43.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Landers, Ann

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Shakespeare, William

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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 you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

48.

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

Tauscher, Stacia

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

Wilde, Oscar

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