Motivational Quotes

Children

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

- Dogen

Best Quotes about Children

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Shakespeare, William

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

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

Gray, Thomas

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

John Gray

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

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

Groucho Marx

10.

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

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

18.

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

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

Dogen

20.

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

Edwards, Harry

21.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

22.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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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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The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

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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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

27.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Polanski, Roman

28.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

29.

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

Bombeck, Erma

30.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Lamb, Charles

31.

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

Baldwin, James

32.

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

Fran Lebowitz

33.

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

Watts, Isaac

34.

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.

35.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

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

40.

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

Peter Ustinov

41.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

44.

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.

45.

It takes three to make a child.

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

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Baldwin, James

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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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The wildest colts make the best horses.