Motivational Quotes

Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Gray, Thomas

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.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

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

Mary MacCracken

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

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.

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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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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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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Fielding, Henry

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

Jameson, Anna

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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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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.

Spolin, Viola

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Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Daniel Raeburn

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Watts, Isaac

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

Norman Douglas

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

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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

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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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

Epictetus

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

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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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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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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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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Churchill, Winston

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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

Dogen

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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robert Orben

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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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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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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

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Children need models rather than critics.