Motivational Quotes

Children

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

- Dick Cavett

Best Quotes about Children

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Groucho Marx

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Bible

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

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

Who, Dr.

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

Eliot, George

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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

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Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Ruskin, John

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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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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

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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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We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.

Morley, Christopher

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Montessori, Maria

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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

Edwards, Harry

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

Groucho Marx

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Angelou, Maya

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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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

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

Moses, Robert

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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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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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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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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 enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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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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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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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Jones, Franklin P.