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

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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

Mary MacCracken

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

King Edward VIII

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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

Menninger, Karl A.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Jordan, June

10.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

11.

The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Jameson, Anna

14.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

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

Peter Ustinov

20.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

23.

Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

24.

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

Sam Levenson

25.

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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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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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

28.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Johnson, Lady Bird

30.

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 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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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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

Who, Dr.

35.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kennedy, John F.

37.

It's fun being a kid.

Angier, Bradford Arthur

38.

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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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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

42.

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

Fran Lebowitz

43.

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

Edwards, Harry

44.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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