Motivational Quotes

Children

It takes three to make a child.

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

Best Quotes about Children

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Gray, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Groucho Marx

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Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.

Meyer, Adolph

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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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

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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Wilder, Thornton

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Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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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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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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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

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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Swift, Jonathan

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Mary MacCracken

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Johnson, Lady Bird

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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